https://www.scmp.com/rss/329806/feed Jeffrey D. Sachs, professor of sustainable development and professor of health policy and management at Columbia University, is director of Columbia’s Centre for Sustainable Development and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Almost a year after Joe Biden’s narrow presidential election victory over Donald Trump, the United States remains on a knife-edge. Many political outcomes are possible. These range from the gradual economic and political reform that Biden is seeking to the subversion of elections and constitutional rule that Trump attempted last January. It’s not easy to diagnose exactly what ails America at its core so deeply that it incited the Trump movement. Is it the ceaseless culture wars that divide... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3160771/us-must-address-political-corruption-and-social-inequality-or-risk?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3160771/us-must-address-political-corruption-and-social-inequality-or-risk?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 25 Dec 2021 19:30:10 +0000 The arrest of Huawei chief financial officer Sabrina Meng Wanzhou is a dangerous move by the Donald Trump administration in its intensifying conflict with China. History, as the saying attributed to Mark Twain goes, doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes. If so, our era increasingly echoes the period preceding 1914. As with Europe’s great powers back then, the United States, led by an administration intent on asserting American dominance over China, is pushing the world towards disaster.  The... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2177794/supreme-american-hypocrisy-waging-war-huawei?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2177794/supreme-american-hypocrisy-waging-war-huawei?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 13 Dec 2018 06:30:30 +0000