Project Syndicate

By Yu Yongding BEIJING – When China’s GDP growth is below target, successive governments have relied on the same tool: government spending on infrastructure investment to stimulate the economy.

By  Reza Aslan RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA – The nationwide protests in Iran over women’s rights and abuses by the religious morality police have once again shone a light on the country’s ruling clerical class and the seemingly limitless powers of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

By Carl Bildt STOCKHOLM – In addition to dealing with the fallout from open warfare in eastern Europe, the world is witnessing the start of a full-scale economic war between the United States and China over technology.

By Joseph E. Stiglitz NEW YORK – Politically, the G7 and likeminded countries around the world have adopted a war footing to stop Russian aggression.

By Daniel Russel NEW YORK – A new geopolitical crisis is stirring against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, tensions around Taiwan, and the sharpening US-China rivalry.

By Robert D. Kaplan STOCKBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS – Sometimes a news cycle constitutes more than just noise.

By Mark Cliffe LONDON – Scientists have longed warned that climate change will adversely affect weather patterns and living conditions around the world.

By Josep Borrell   BRUSSELS – Russia’s war against Ukraine has entered a new phase.

By Jeffrey D. Sachs NEW YORK – Around the world, 2022 has been a year of climate catastrophes, including droughts, floods, mega-fires, typhoons, and more.

By Nina L. Khrushcheva MOSCOW – One of Queen Elizabeth II’s final acts was to accept the resignation of disgraced Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the most mendacious and incompetent of the 15 prime ministers who led the United Kingdom during her 70-year reign.

By  Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – During a parliamentary debate in April, I expressed my concerns about India’s relationship with Russia.

By Yasmine Sherif and Gordon Brown EDINBURGH – Following this year’s catastrophic flooding in Pakistan, millions of young Pakistanis’ life opportunities are hanging by a thread.

By  Nina L. Khrushcheva MOSCOW – “We all need to have perestroika,” Mikhail Gorbachev would often say.

STOCKHOLM – After World War II, global diplomatic efforts sought to create a new international order that would prevent the world from descending into war, chaos, and anarchy again.

EDINBURGH – At recent gatherings of G7 leaders, NATO members, and G20 foreign ministers, it was clear to everyone that the world is facing a confluence of emergencies unlike anything we have seen in decades.

By George Soros NEW YORK – The United States has been a constantly evolving democracy ever since it was founded in 1776, but its survival as a democracy is now gravely endangered.

By Turki bin Faisal al-Saud BAKU – Just as the world was beginning to recover from one of the biggest crises in recent decades, another one has erupted in Europe.

By Joseph E. Stiglitz NEW YORK – The United States appears to have entered a new cold war with both China and Russia.

By  Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – Two episodes in the first week of June starkly illustrate both the promise of Indian foreign policy and the pitfalls it faces as a result of the country’s increasingly toxic domestic political culture.

By Seta Tutundjian DUBAI – Global food prices are soaring. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s Food Price Index – which covers a basket of basic food commodities (cereals, meat, dairy, vegetable oils, and sugar) – reached an all-time high of 159.7 in March, up from 141.1 the previous month.