Geo-politics & Globalisation

China’s star is rising fast – and it will change the world
11th May 2010
The News Tribune
The spats between the United States and China appear to be getting more numerous and more serious.
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Crouching Dragon, Weakened Eagle
16th Feb 2010
New York Times online edition 16/02/10; Christian Science Monitor 17/02/10; The Huffington Post 17/02/10; International Herald Tribune 17/02/10;
The spats between the United States and China appear to be getting more numerous and more serious.
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Beijing raises its voice
1st Feb 2010
The Guardian
China’s tough response on US arms sales to Taiwan reflects the shift in the global balance of power
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No Chance Against China
25th Jan 2010
Newsweek
Google’s defeat foretells the day when Beijing rules the world.
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Understanding China
22nd Nov 2009
Los Angeles Times
The West has gotten it wrong on China for decades - even as it embraces a market economy, it has shunned Western-style freedoms. And its power is only growing.
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The game’s as good as lost
16th Jul 2009
The New Statesman
Afghanistan has proved the deathbed of every imperial project that has sought to tame it. Sooner or later, the British will leave in defeat
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A sense of an ending
2nd Jul 2009
The New Statesman
Washington must cut the umbilical cords that ties it to Tel Aviv. If it doesn’t, the conflict in the Middle East will hasten American decline
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Face to face with history
23rd Apr 2009
The New Statesman
The UN conference on racism confronted western countries with difficult truths – but that’s no reason for anyone to walk out
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The great shift in global power just hit high gear, sparked by a financial crash
20th Apr 2009
The Guardian
As an emboldened China sees, the American dollar is gravely wounded. And the days of US political supremacy are numbered
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No-one rules the world
23rd Mar 2009
The New Statesman
US economic power is crumbling, but China is not yet ready to take over the reins.
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Global recovery rests on fresh US approach to China
13th Feb 2009
The Guardian
Salvation does not lie in demagogic attacks. Beijing must be treated as an equal - or another Great Depression beckons
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Burma and Zimbabwe witness the last gasps of the supreme global sheriff
30th Jul 2008
The Guardian
The west can no longer impose its will on the increasingly powerful and self-confident nations of the developing world
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Power and morality
23rd Jul 2008
The Guardian
Foreign policy is often dressed up in moral rhetoric, but ultimately might is stronger than right
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The superpower
2nd Jun 2008
The Guardian
To judge by the preoccupations of western, and especially American, politics, the defining event of this decade was, without a shadow of doubt, 9/11.
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Myopia on Myanmar
21st May 2008
The Guardian
Governments and the media need to wake up to the fact that east Asia can increasingly look after itself and doesn't need or want western help
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The citidels of the global economy are yielding to China’s battering ram
23rd Apr 2008
The Guardian
A key appointment at the World Bank shows the importance of Beijing to the institutions it will soon come to dwarf
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Life in the fast lane
26th Mar 2008
The Guardian
Tata's purchase of Jaguar and Land Rover signals that India and China are turning the old hierarchy of global trade on its head
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Eastern bias sends F1 wrong direction
11th Jul 2007
Observer Monthly Sport
Around a decade ago, Bernie Ecclestone, the guy who runs Formula One, began to make ominous noises about the prospects for F1 in Europe, suggesting that the sport's future instead lay in the East.
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Encircled and humiliated
5th Jun 2007
The Guardian
The source of the current tension between Moscow and the west is US and Nato military provocation
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Sarkozy plays the race card - and our establishment cheers
4th May 2007
The Guardian
The French presidential favourite's pandering to the far right is indulged because of his pro-US stance and neo-liberalism
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Europe’s contempt for other cultures can’t be sustained
17th Feb 2006
The Guardian
A continent that inflicted colonial brutality all over the globe for 200 years has little claim to the superiority of its values
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How the west is lost
17th Mar 2006
The Guardian
Europeans and Americans fail to realise that the future lies in the east.
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Decline and fall
27th Mar 2006
The Guardian
Bush's foreign policy has failed ignominiously in Iraq, but where does that leave the liberal imperialists?
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Imperial overreach is accelerating the global decline of America
28th Mar 2006
The Guardian
The disastrous foreign policies of the US have left it more isolated than ever, and China is standing by to take over
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We are globalised, but have no real intimacy with the rest of the world
17th Apr 2006
The Guardian
Increased contact with other countries has led many to believe that the western model should be applied everywhere
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The most important meeting in the world
20th Apr 2006
The Guardian
For the sake of all of us, Hu Jintao and George Bush need to get on.
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Eye off the dragon
11th May 2006
The Guardian
China's opposition to action against Iran shows how it is increasingly at odds with the United States. It is a shame Washington hasn't noticed.
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If the 20th century ended in 1989, the 21st began in 1978
25th May 2006
The Guardian
Eleven years before the epochal events in Germany, a seismic change was taking place in China
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This is the relationship that will define global politics
15th Jun 2006
The Guardian
China will be the next superpower: already it's in competition with the US for the hearts and minds of the developing world
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The death of Doha signals the demise of globalisation
13th Jul 2006
The Guardian
As developing countries acquire a powerful voice, the US shuns multilateral trade deals because it can no longer get its own way
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American support may no longer be enough
14th Aug 2006
The Guardian
Israel's long-term future lies in connecting with its Arab neighbours, not a western superpower thousands of miles away
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America faces a future of managing imperial decline
16th Nov 2006
The Guardian
Bush's failure to grasp the limits of US global power has led to an adventurism for which his successors will pay a heavy price
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The neocons have finished what the Vietcong started
8th Dec 2006
The Guardian
Vietnam traumatised the US but left its power intact; Iraq, however, will be far more serious for the superpower
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It is national sovereignty that has given China and India their edge
17th Sep 2005
The Guardian
The defeat of colonial rule will come to be seen as the defining event of the 20th century
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Cold war, take two
18th Jun 2005
The Guardian
US v China will soon be the dominant fault line of global politics
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East is east - get used to it
20th May 2005
The Guardian
As Japan has shown, and China will too, the west's values are not necessarily universal
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The neocon revolution
231st Mar 2005
The Guardian
US unilateralism was a means of breaking the old order. Now it is building new alliances
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No monopoly on modernity
5th Feb 2005
The Guardian
American dominance is bound to wither as Asia's confidence grows
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Europe and the US are now adrift
17th Mar 2005
The Guardian
Spain’confirms the huge impact the Iraq war has had on our world
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The return of people s war
19th Apr 2004
The Guardian
Iraq shows the west and its new liberal imperialists have forgotten the lessons of history
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Our moral Waterloo
15th May 2004
The Guardian
The claims of western values are mocked by Iraq and the rise of Asia
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Democracy isn’t working
22nd Jun 2004
The Guardian
It is the west’s calling card, but its global applicability is now in doubt
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A year of thwarted ambition
27th Dec 2003
The Guardian
War in Iraq revealed the likely limits to American imperial power
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The power of one
26th May 2003
The Guardian
Weak nations will succumb to American ambition unless we insist on respecting sovereignty
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The new barbarism
9th May 2002
The Guardian
Not since the 1930s has the threat of racism and fascism been so great in the west
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