“The kind of superficial flattery and bonhomie in which Trump can excel when he is trying to make nice does not generate the deeper confidence that has assured Chinese leaders in the past,” writes Orville Schell.
“Far from weakening its rule, the way the CCP cleans its ranks can explain part of what makes it durable,” writes Andrew Mertha. “A purge is not an event but a process—one that the party has run in nearly identical form for a century.”
By some measures, there is more war in the world today than at any point since World War II. On the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” @LawDavF discusses this new era of conflict: