Robert A. Manning

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A protester at the center holds up a sign showing a cartoon image of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Myanmar military chief Sr. Gen. Min Aung Hlaing during a demonstration against the military coup in front of the Chinese Embassy in Yangon, Myanmar, on Feb. 11, 2021. Ye Aung Thu / AFP via Getty Images

MundoAsia,

The writer Joan Didion famously observed, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live”. So do nations. China, for example, invents stories to delete or rewrite uncomfortable history like the Tiananmen uprising (not unlike U.S. President Donald Trump trying to erase Jan. 6) or the horrors of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution. On the global stage, China is telling the world stories about its vision for a post-American world order that bear little resemblance to its actual policies in Asia—especially, and most egregiously, in their war-torn neighbor Myanmar.

The Chinese story goes like this: America’s hegemony has been oppressive and unipolar; China’s rise will open up the world to a more just and equal order.…  Seguir leyendo »

The full moon appears near the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia on April 7. Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP via Getty Images

Internacional,

Once upon a time, outer space, like the air and seas, was one of the global commons, held jointly for all of humanity. But great power competition, a deficit of rules, and a booming private space economy are eroding that status. The new cold war between the United States and nations such as Russia and China is extending to the cosmos: NATO has declared space an “operational domain”. And like the old Cold War, the new one poses a threat to life on Earth itself, from the dangers of space debris to the possibility of targeting satellites in an already-crowded Low Earth Orbit (an orbit around the Earth at 1,200 miles or less) that so much of modern life is dependent upon.…  Seguir leyendo »