The Globalist

A rich business society, but with a suffering majority.

Will China follow the U.S. model or the German model for innovation and management?

How is life different for young Chinese, compared with their parents’ upbringing?

Can East Asia move past 19th century-style territorial disputes over small islands?

As investors pull back and commodity prices fall, is a new crisis in emerging markets brewing?

What is the weakest point in the geopolitical rise of Asia — and what are the rising nations doing to fix it?

Will closer ties between Japan and South Sudan undo China’s diplomacy in the region — and hurt its investments?

What similar challenges do the new leaders in the Vatican and China both face?

Remember the times when peasants, not the proletariat, were the vanguards of China’s communist revolution?

How will the Tibetan Plateau determine the course of Asia’s future?