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No amount of wishful thinking will displace the mighty dollar
More mistakes are made in political risk analysis due to the curse of wishful thinking than any other intellectual malady that afflicts the human mind. I was recently watching a documentary about the fall of Richard Nixon, in which one of his lawyers expressed shock that the US Supreme Court had ruled unanimously that he…
China will get old before it gets rich and a waning Beijing is a more direct threat
China faces an ageing population and a western world increasingly alive to the threat it poses; Beijing isn’t dangerous because it will outpace the US, it’s as China falls behind, Xi Jinping is more likely to lash out, writes John Hulsman. For the past generation, China-watchers in the West have not covered themselves with glory…
Republican patience with supporting Ukraine is running out
Robert Bolt’s masterpiece, A Man For All Seasons, tells the story of the doomed, heroic, and very human Sir Thomas More. The moral is that it easy to believe in things when they are popular; far harder, and far more important to do so, when they mean that you will risk something. I’m not going…
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