Project Syndicate

Summing up the Biden-Xi Summit

By Richard Haass NEW YORK – Summits are by definition occasions of high politics and drama, so it comes as little surprise that the November 15 meeting between US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping generated immense global interest.

Whither Crypto?

By  Ari Juels and Eswar Prasad NEW YORK/ITHACA – The vertiginous fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX who was recently convicted of fraud and money laundering in New York, has cast a harsh light on a largely unregulated market.

How China creates its own market

By Zhang Jun SHANGHAI – It has become increasingly clear in recent years that China has begun to shift away from its export-driven economic-development model to an “internal circulation” strategy that emphasizes expansion of domestic demand.

Fixing global economic governance

By Joseph E. Stiglitz NEW YORK – Following the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank this month, the Middle East is teetering on the edge of a major conflict, and the rest of the world continues to fracture along new economic and geopolitical lines.

After Gaza

By Carl Bildt .ABU DHABI – Gaza is now at risk of sinking into a new hell.

What will follow Hamas’s War?

By Barak Barfi WASHINGTON, DC – The multi-pronged operation that Hamas launched against Israel one day after the anniversary of the 1973 Yom Kippur War is eerily similar to that conflict.

Hubris meets nemesis in Israel

By Shlomo Ben-Ami TOLEDO – Sooner or later, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s destructive political magic, which has kept him in power for 15 years, was bound to usher in a major tragedy.

Gender Justice is Climate Justice

By Immaculate Atuhamize and Bertrand Badré KAMPALA/PARIS – The Paris Summit for a New Global Financing Pact, held this past June, rightly focused on promoting an inclusive climate action plan that leaves no one behind.

Not destined for war

By Joseph S. Nye CAMBRIDGE – The great-power competition between the United States and China is a defining feature of the first part of this century, but there is little agreement on how it should be characterized.

Putin and Kim’s Cartoon Summit

By Nina L. Khrushcheva MOSCOW – When North Korean leader Kim Jong-un stepped out of his armored train at a railway station in the eastern Russian town of Khasan for his recent meeting with President Vladimir Putin, I could not help but think of the satirical 2017 film The Death of Stalin.

Is AI a Master or Slave?

By Joschka Fischer BERLIN – We are living through eventful – one might even say “wild” – times, with history being made at a fast and furious pace.

Measuring corruption in China

By Yongheng Deng and Shang-Jin Wei MADISON/NEW YORK – Bribery of public officials remains a major problem across the developing world and in some developed countries, too.

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