Asia

The ECFR Power Audits

The four power audits show that Europeans, particularly when working together, retain the capacity to cooperate and compete effectively with all these powers.  But they also show that, in each case, Europe is failing to do so. 

Why China (probably) won’t go to trade war with America

The US protecting its own technology is not the same as a trade war. But were such a war to emerge, it may well be the apparently invulnerable Xi Jinping rather than the bullishly confident Donald Trump who finds his country worse off as a result

Trump-Kim: Reading through the liar’s poker

Each of the two has a personal and strategic interest in reaching an agreement. They can no longer stop the game that they have started.