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President Xi Jinping might have briefly reflected on his previous visit to the White House in September 2015. He was received by President Barack Obama in a joint effort to define China’s place in the American world order. A decade later, little remains of that world order, China has placed its mark alongside that of the US.

The time when a Chinese president had to give way to his American counterpart is over

In his weekly column N. Peter Kramer writes about President Xi Jinping who referred to President Trump a number of times "the Thucydides Trap"

Le Pen’s pole position in the presidential race is not mainly driven by her positions on the war in Ukraine. But, given the specificity of the questions in the Harris poll, they shouldn’t be underestimated either.

How Le Pen Benefits from the Stalemate in Ukraine

The domestic impacts of how long it is taking to end the war in Ukraine have pushed the French electorate to the political extremes and compromised the country’s diplomatic capacity.

Danuta Hubner, a former Polish MEP and European Commissioner

Senior political figures call for speeding up of EU/UK re-set

A former European Union commissioner has called for a re-set of EU/UK relations to be stepped up. Danuta Hubner, also a former Polish MEP, said Brexit “is not working.”

In previous rounds of EU enlargement, issues related to voting procedures were resolved before new members were brought in. Leading up to the 2004 enlargement, discussions centered on Poland’s role as the largest of the incoming countries. When Poland joined, it was allotted twenty-seven votes in the council, roughly equivalent to Spain’s weight, despite the latter’s population being about 60 percent larger.

The Uncomfortable Truth About EU Enlargement

Before the next wave of EU enlargement takes place, the union needs to grapple with thorny questions of how power is distributed among its members.

The proposition for the coming decade is more ambitious and more defensible. Build in Romania because it lets you manufacture inside the European Union and sell into the Single Market without tariff risk. Build here because it connects Central Europe to the Black Sea. Build here because Europe’s industrial and defence renewal is being written on its eastern flank. And build here because, sooner or later, Ukraine’s reconstruction will become one of the largest economic projects on the continent, and Romania is next door.

The Asian Century’s Next EU Factory

Western capital built Romania’s first manufacturing boom. Asian capital could build the second

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