The Globalist

How did China react to Japan’s economic boom in the 1980s — and its financial meltdown in the 1990s?

What were the 1970s like in China, when even mainstream Western politicians came to call on Mao in Beijing?

What happened when China was eclipsed by the rise of neighboring Japan?

How does the emergence of China look through the prism of a Westerner’s life?

A museum director’s reflections on vexing global issues such as identity, tolerance, conflict and war.

Memories of student activism in a changing New York neighborhood.

This time, it may be Europe – not the United States – that faces the ghosts of the “MS St. Louis.”

The benefits of ending the curious U.S. practice of turning natural allies into mortal enemies: Iran, Cuba, Vietnam.

Today’s refugee crisis imagery echoes the Dutch England-Voyagers and French escapees of World War II

With nothing left to prove on battlefields, Germany can pursue other tasks and strategies.