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When a year draws to a close, the prospects of Chinese and global social and economic progress in the coming year often spark wide media and scholarly discussions around the world. As the world’s second-largest economy, China adjusted its COVID policy in December 2022, and naturally garnered enormo...

The Financial Times has invented a new term to describe the current global economic situation: “shrinkflation.” The new term aptly describes the situation of the US economy, which in the first and second quarters of 2022 experienced negative growth for two consecutive quarters – a technical reces...

On November 27, 2022, the Government of Canada promulgated the Indo-Pacific Strategy and joined the US Club of China containment.

On December 16, 2022, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in a televised news conference announced a new National Security Strategy (NSS) along with two other documents, a national defense strategy (NDS) and Defense Buildup Program (DBP), indicating a major departure from the last seven decades’ ...

A principal claim of democratic theory is that democracy makes governments responsive to the preferences of the people. However, the leadership change in recent years has become more of musical chairs for those who desire power.

Discussions concerning political systems often slip into a false binary – that legitimate political systems should either take the form of closed selection methods or open elections. But the proposed model is – in many ways – a hybrid.