For over a century, the Western civil service model was hailed as the gold standard of modern governance. Today, especially in the US, we are witnessing loyalty replace merit and brazen corruption go unchecked. Drawing on China’s 2,000 years of bureaucratic history, Professor Fan Yongpeng argues that the system was a superficial transplant from the start and is now regressing to its feudal roots.
Since 1945, American foreign policy has obeyed a systemic invariant: maintaining the world in a state of structural vassalage. This Pax Americana, which is nothing more than a myth shrouded in economic violence and military coercion, is crumbling.
The US–Saudi nuclear deal risks prioritizing Washington’s strategic influence and commercial interests over strict non-proliferation safeguards, potentially creating a latent Saudi nuclear capability and triggering a wider regional arms race. The genie must not be let out of the bottle.
Le 28 février 2026, en douze heures, l’aviation américaine et israélienne a frappé l’Iran près de neuf cents fois et tué son Guide suprême. En représailles, Téhéran a fermé le détroit d’Ormuz. Ce que le monde a découvert dans les semaines qui ont suivi n’est pas seulement l’histoire d’une guerre régionale de plus : c’est la démonstration, à l’échelle d’un conflit réel, qu’au XXIe siècle la puissance ne se mesure plus au territoire que l’on tient, mais aux flux — pétrole, capitaux, données, assurances, confiance — que l’on parvient à faire circuler, ou à interrompre.
The thesis of “shared responsibility” between Nazism and Communism, promoted by European institutions since 2019, and the sustained vote of Germany, Japan and Italy against the UN resolution on the glorification of Nazism reveal the same strategic purpose: to question the legitimacy of Moscow as the founding power of the post-war order.
Le ministre israélien des Finances, Bezalel Smotrich, a déclaré mardi lors d’une conférence qu’Israël «n’a aucun intérêt» à participer aux échanges militaires en cours entre les États-Unis et l’Iran, affirmant que «la situation actuelle est la meilleure pour nous».
La question des espions a commencé à prendre une importance croissante dans la réflexion des mouvements de résistance palestiniens et libanais dans les années 1970, en particulier après qu’Israël a répondu à l’opération de Munich par une vague d’assassinats.
Through an opaque network of shell companies in the British Virgin Islands and Luxembourg holding firms, an agency that manages China’s foreign reserves has discreetly scooped up stakes in Europe’s critical infrastructure, utilities, and real estate.
From a gas company in Spain to a police headquarters in Belgium, an agency directed by China’s central bank has been quietly acquiring stakes in companies and properties across Europe over the past decade.
The United States has resumed attacks on Iran. The memorandum of understanding that Tehran and Washington struck last month in Switzerland, hanging by a thread for weeks, has finally fallen apart. “I think it’s over,” U.S. President Donald Trump said on July 8. “I don’t want to deal with [Iran] anymore.”
AL-MANSOURI, Lebanon—The road into Al-Mansouri winds through a shattered landscape. A barber shop stands without walls, its broken mirror still clinging to the remaining structure. The village cemetery is scarred by craters. The mosque is still standing, though parts of its façade were ripped away by Israeli airstrikes.