"It seems that every day we’re reminded that we live in an era of great power rivalry, that the rules-based order is fading, that the strong can do what they can, and the weak must suffer what they must. And this aphorism of Thucydides is presented as inevitable, as the natural logic of international relations reasserting itself.”
Saying
"Questions of justice apply only to those equal in power, Otherwise, such things as are possible, the superior exact and the weak give up.”
Neither reference was accidental. PM Carney directed his comments to China as much as to President Trump. This is a multiplayer game not one confined to Athens/Sparta. A new world is fundamental in a “new world order”. We are at the table, not the negotiation table it seems, but the game is on…
Xi has presided over the most remarkable transition. Not surprising for a man who spent 7 years of his youth imprisoned in a cave. While Trump played country club Prince with bone spurs.
This isn’t really about Trump though is it? It is about Xi, who could go down in the annals of Chinese history along side Confucius as one of the all time greats. Raising 800 million out of poverty, industrializing a country to unrivalled globally and replacing an unjust and shallow society at the top of the global order.
Xi does not want war. China is not expansionist. A benevolent Xi ushers in a global peace. America must understand, it needs another couple thousand years to grow up.
If US courts are still screwing with Black voters, it is still introducing harm into a system that truly needs to be motivated by reconciliation. Introducing new burdens only makes their path longer.
PM Carney in Davos recognised the board:
"It seems that every day we’re reminded that we live in an era of great power rivalry, that the rules-based order is fading, that the strong can do what they can, and the weak must suffer what they must. And this aphorism of Thucydides is presented as inevitable, as the natural logic of international relations reasserting itself.”
Saying
"Questions of justice apply only to those equal in power, Otherwise, such things as are possible, the superior exact and the weak give up.”
Neither reference was accidental. PM Carney directed his comments to China as much as to President Trump. This is a multiplayer game not one confined to Athens/Sparta. A new world is fundamental in a “new world order”. We are at the table, not the negotiation table it seems, but the game is on…
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Xi has presided over the most remarkable transition. Not surprising for a man who spent 7 years of his youth imprisoned in a cave. While Trump played country club Prince with bone spurs.
This isn’t really about Trump though is it? It is about Xi, who could go down in the annals of Chinese history along side Confucius as one of the all time greats. Raising 800 million out of poverty, industrializing a country to unrivalled globally and replacing an unjust and shallow society at the top of the global order.
Xi does not want war. China is not expansionist. A benevolent Xi ushers in a global peace. America must understand, it needs another couple thousand years to grow up.
If US courts are still screwing with Black voters, it is still introducing harm into a system that truly needs to be motivated by reconciliation. Introducing new burdens only makes their path longer.