https://www.scmp.com/rss/312365/feed Ian Bremmer, founder and president of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media, is a member of the Executive Committee of the UN High-level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Globalisation helped make the United States the most prosperous country in history, but many Americans apparently did not feel (or appreciate) it, so they voted to “liberate” themselves from the system that America built. US President Donald Trump is now delivering for them, and the consequences are reverberating around the world. “Now it’s our turn to prosper,” Trump proclaimed on April 2, when he announced sweeping tariffs, ranging from 10 to 50 per cent, on almost every US trading partner... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3305788/trumps-tariff-wall-was-never-about-fairness-or-reciprocity?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3305788/trumps-tariff-wall-was-never-about-fairness-or-reciprocity?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 09 Apr 2025 08:30:09 +0000 US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping managed to keep tensions between their countries contained in 2024. But when president-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House this month, he will end this fragile stability, drive an unmanaged decoupling of the world’s most important geopolitical relationship and increase the risk of global economic disruption and crisis. Trump will begin his second term by announcing fresh tariffs on Chinese goods, with the goal of forcing a new... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3293836/trump-will-put-us-and-china-back-collision-course?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3293836/trump-will-put-us-and-china-back-collision-course?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 Jan 2025 12:30:08 +0000 Multilateralism has fallen on hard times lately, especially at the United Nations. The UN Security Council couldn’t stop Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon remain elusive. Summits have failed to spur enough concrete action to meet global climate targets. Not only are the UN’s own sustainable development goals off-track; in many cases, progress towards meeting them has reversed. The UN’s foundational commitments to peace, security and cooperation feel very foreign at a... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3281795/ai-compact-proves-theres-hope-multilateralism-yet?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3281795/ai-compact-proves-theres-hope-multilateralism-yet?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 10 Oct 2024 06:30:08 +0000 With the 2024 presidential election four months away, Democrats are facing a perfect political storm. US President Joe Biden’s startlingly unfocused debate performance against Donald Trump has left party officials, major donors and many of the Democrats’ likeliest voters calling for a change at the top of the ticket. A few weeks ago, backing Biden was thought to be the Democrats’ best hope. After all, it’s not easy to beat an incumbent. Since 1932, only Herbert Hoover, Jimmy Carter, the elder... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3269482/why-democratic-party-struggling-look-beyond-biden?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3269482/why-democratic-party-struggling-look-beyond-biden?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 07 Jul 2024 14:30:10 +0000 When it comes to economic reform, China's leaders no longer believe that time is on their side. With a new sense of urgency, President Xi Jinping and his inner circle are attempting one of the most ambitious economic and social-policy reforms in history. But in any authoritarian country, change creates risk. Consider the scale of the proposed plans. For China to reach the next stage of its development, a much larger share of Chinese-made products now destined for Europe, America and Japan must... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1429659/chinas-big-reform-gamble?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1429659/chinas-big-reform-gamble?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:00:15 +0000