Trump and Xi Jinping, October 30, 2025 -- public domain image By Prabir Purkayastha The Trump-Xi meeting in Busan, South Korea today —30 October 2025— may have brought about a temporary relief in the US-China trade war. But unless we see the fine print of the agreement, it is difficult to assess whether this is a temporary truce or the beginning of a real rapprochement between the two nations. The jury is still out on that one and we will wait for a better understanding of wh

Donald Trump is striving to leave his doctrine as his legacy to the world, which, as a guiding principle, seeks to reposition the United States as the holder of absolute military power and to disparage multilateralism. This is because we are no longer dealing with the world’s leading economic power, and this proportionally affects its military capacity. Trump at the UN, September 23, 2025 -- public domain image By Carmen Navas Reyes From Monroe to Trump, Unilateralism The fam

Between capitalism in decline, expressed in wars and neo-fascism, and the left calling for reconstruction, people resist. NATO Summit,...