China

Elites in the U.S. and China are seriously contemplating what a great power war may look like. That is itself alarming.

China never intervened military in Syria, but it did support the Assad regime in other ways. After Assad’s fall, China faces a complicated dilemma.

Victory in the U.S.-China trade war will go to the side that is best at persuading other countries that its version of globalization is the most attractive.