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These Times - Ukraine and the world order

The Econoclasts

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China's Ambition to Act as a Peace Broker

If Xi Jinping can put pressure on Putin to retreat, wouldn't that be to Washington's advantage? I went on a holiday to Kyrgyzstan with some friends and you could see the Chinese influence. This was a Russian-speaking place with a Russian base,. Yet you saw the signs being put up by Turkey seeking kind of influence over what it saw as its ethnic brothers, or kin, and China. It was everywhere.

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