From its peak of economic and military power in the Med in 200 BC, Rome took several centuries to decline and fall. It won’t be so long in the modern capitalist world. By Michael Roberts On the first day of talks during US President Donald Trump’s recent state visit to China, his host China’s Xi Jinping invoked the so-called “Thucydides trap” ...
Posted by by United World International 15 Min Read May 29, 2026 By Dr. Ali Alsaç Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing on May 13–15, 2026, should be read not merely as a diplomatic contact, but as a stage showcasing the 21st century’s technological balance of power. It is no coincidence that Trump was accompanied by top-level representatives from the technology, ...
The fairytale of ‘Free Trade’ By Orçun Göktürk, from Beijing / China A new bill submitted to Congress in the US clearly demonstrates the stage Washington’s containment strategy against China in the Pacific has reached. According to the proposal, the US will negotiate new free trade agreements with Pacific Island countries; it will eliminate tariffs on certain products and deepen ...
On the summit to be celebrated October 31st – November 1, it is about “America First” versus Multipolarity. By Orçun Göktürk, from Beijing / China With Donald Trump’s return to the global stage, the U.S. foreign policy strategy has shifted away from its long-proclaimed mission of defending so-called “freedom and democracy” toward a period entirely oriented around American interests -a ...
Why Russian Vice-president Medvedev is right when saying that Trump lives in an “alternate reality”. By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein Dedicated to the Heroic Guerrilla, Commander Ernesto Che Guevara, on the 58th anniversary of his passing into immortality After reading a recent article by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, I was left thinking about a phrase he said: “Trump has once ...
A Competition the World Can’t Afford to Lose By Mehmet Enes Beşer The race in clean energy technology between the United States and China is gathering pace—and increasingly it’s being fueled by an avalanche of subsidies. With billions flowing in from both sides on batteries, hydrogen, electric cars, and solar panels, the world is witnessing a new age of industrial ...
Since the 1960s, Washington used drugs’ policy, both domestically and internationally. By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein During the last decade of the last century, following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the United States set out to find a new enemy to serve as a pivot for reorganizing its foreign and military policy. Initially, ...
Why Trump decided to seek rapprochement with China. By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein In 2011, long before entering active politics, Donald Trump tweeted that China was the enemy of the United States and that his goal was to destroy it. He later asserted, “On trade, the Chinese are cheats.” A year later, in 2012, he commented, “The concept of global warming ...
But China is not Japan… By Orçun Göktürk from Beijing / China On September 22, 1985, the United States hosted its allies within the “capitalist bloc” at the Plaza Hotel in New York. The main objective of the meeting, attended by West Germany, Japan, France, and the United Kingdom, was to reduce the value of the excessively overvalued U.S. dollar—particularly ...
Neither recent nor just a trade war: The background of the US-China conflict. By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein Many people may think that the conflict between the United States and China is recent and that characterizing it as a “trade war” helps explain its essence, but neither is true. Exalting this confrontation within the framework of these two particularities leads to ...