Opinion

Time to build the post-pandemic world order

The fight against COVID-19 is unlike a typical interstate conflict. The enemy is not a human or a state, but a virus. This ought to be a time for countries around the world to come together to confront a common enemy.But that is not what is happening in the world. Antagonism between the United State...

Opinion

Covid-19 and the advent of a ‘contactless economic system’

After succeeding in suppressing the spread of COVID-19 in Wuhan, the original epicenter of the novel coronavirus, China emerged as a global leader in the fight against the pandemic, lending help to countries that subsequently struggled in their efforts to contain the pandemic, including Italy and Sp...

Opinion

The age of geoeconomics is upon us

The United States and China managed to agree on a “phase-one” trade deal in December. For now at least, the two countries have reached a truce in the trade war that had been launched by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.Washington appears to have no intention, however, of...

Opinion

Were the 2010s a return to the 1930s?

The 2010s came to an end on Dec. 31. Any period is compri­sed of irreplaceable memories for those who lived through it, but the decade band is a particularly vivid marker of time. This was especially true of the 2010s.During this decade, the framework of the long postwar period — its inter...