Frederick Kempe, CNBC: The coronavirus joins tough list of 2020 tests for China’s global leadership
* Kishore Mahbubeni, the Singaporean author and intellectual, is promoting his new book, “Has China Won?”
* The cover blurb announces that he will explain “how, while America became arrogant and distracted, a three-thousand-year-old civilization is well on the way to becoming the number one power in the world.”
* The year ahead is likely to provide the most profound trial yet for that thesis and for the durability of China’s rise.
Davos, Switzerland – “Has China Won?”
Kishore Mahbubeni, the Singaporean author and intellectual, greets me warmly in a conference lounge here and hands me a card promoting the March release of his new book, bearing that provocative question as its title.
The cover blurb announces that he will explain “how, while America became arrogant and distracted, a three-thousand-year-old civilization is well on the way to becoming the number one power in the world.”
The year ahead is likely to provide the most profound trial yet for that thesis and for the durability of China’s rise.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- January 30, 2020
China’s virus response has been ‘breathtaking’ -- Pepe Escobar, Asia Times
Factbox: Latest on the coronavirus spreading in China and beyond -- Reuters
Will the Wuhan virus become a pandemic? -- The Economist
The Guardian view on Libya and foreign interference: talking peace, shipping arms -- Guardian editorial
Bribes, lies and a dead man’s vote rock Indonesia -- John McBeth, Asia Times
‘Two different political cultures’: A divided Scotland braces for Brexit -- Tom Wheeldon, France 24
Iran’s Regional Armed Network -- Kali Robinson, Council on Foreign Relations
Trump's Nuclear Waivers Irk Washington's Iran Hawks -- Matthew Petti, National Interest
The Goal Isn't Peace, It's Power -- Robert Malley & Aaron David Miller, Politico
What Sort of Revolution Does Bernie Sanders Want? -- Amitai Etzioni, National Interest
Is this the end of the liberal international order? And what might take its place? -- Antony Funnell, ABC News Online
How Third-Worldism Can Be Reimagined Today -- Howard W. French, WPR
Why the Doomsday Clock is Wrong -- Patty-Jane Gelle, National Interest
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