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Who will conquer the world?

Eleven hundred years ago Europe was a backwater. There were no grand cities, apart from Cordoba in Spain which was Muslim. The Middle...

From Obama to Trump to Harris

Two mistakes, committed on President Barack Obama’s watch, were the triggers for the end of the long post-Cold War period of good...

Reading the tea-leaves in Hong Kong

In 1995 in a little remembered event Li Ruthuan, a member of the Chinese Politiburo (containing the top seven in the government), made a...

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