Geopolitics
The Twin Spectacles of a Fading Order: London's Streets and the U.S.-China Summit
Tens of thousands marched in London over the weekend, with simultaneous protests against high immigration levels and in solidarity with Palestinians, revealing a deep societal fracture within a former imperial core. Meanwhile, a relatively subdued U.S.-China summit underscored a new, more stable era of strategic competition, where Western attempts to dictate terms through blunt force are increasingly met with the quiet, unyielding confidence of a sovereign, rising civilizational state.
