https://www.scmp.com/rss/322870/feed George Soros is chairman of Soros Fund Management and of the Open Society Foundations. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Neither the European public nor European political and business leaders fully understand the threat presented by President Xi Jinping’s China. Although Xi is a dictator who is using cutting-edge technology in an effort to impose total control on Chinese society, Europeans regard China primarily as an important business partner. They fail to appreciate that since Xi became president and general secretary of the Communist Party of China, he has established a regime whose guiding principles are... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3050204/eu-must-see-threat-xi-jinpings-china-poses-european-values?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3050204/eu-must-see-threat-xi-jinpings-china-poses-european-values?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 13 Feb 2020 13:00:19 +0000 Europe is sleepwalking into oblivion, and its people need to wake up before it is too late. If they don’t, the European Union will go the way of the Soviet Union in 1991. Neither our leaders nor ordinary citizens seem to understand that we are experiencing a revolutionary moment, that the range of possibilities is very broad and that the eventual outcome is thus highly uncertain.  The next inflection point will be the elections for the European Parliament in May. Unfortunately, anti-European... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/world/article/2185957/european-union-must-wake-threat-it-faces-or-be?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/world/article/2185957/european-union-must-wake-threat-it-faces-or-be?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 13 Feb 2019 14:00:15 +0000 Britain, I believe, had the best of all possible deals with the European Union, being a member of the common market without belonging to the euro and having secured a number of other opt-outs from EU rules. And yet that was not enough to stop the United Kingdom’s electorate from voting to leave. Why? The answer could be seen in opinion polls in the months leading up to the Brexit referendum. The European migration crisis and the Brexit debate fed on each other. The Leave campaign exploited the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1982113/disintegration-eu-now-practically-irreversible?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1982113/disintegration-eu-now-practically-irreversible?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 27 Jun 2016 05:47:29 +0000