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Dangerous Grounds

Coming soon to a democracy near you

The Collapse of Syria

The story of a nation’s unravelling, one neighbourhood at a time

Trompe Le Toil

The modern conundrum of overwork

Gordon Chang

Gordon G. Chang is the author of The Coming Collapse of China (Random House, 2001). Follow him on Twitter @GordonGChang.

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The Grandest Wager

Is Trump betting on Russia to help contain China? March 2017
Donald Trump kissed Vladimir Putin on the lips, at least in a Saturday Night Live skit in November. Whether romance or bromance, Trump’s embrace of the Russian leader looks to be especially tight. During the American presidential campaign, Putin could commit no hostile or dangerous act that Trump did not explain away. After…

Thunder in the East

China and the next global financial crisis April 2016
The regime that was supposed to own the century may not survive the decade. The People’s Republic of China is now trapped in slow-burning economic and financial crises. These difficulties are contributing to troubling changes in the country’s politics, and those political changes are affecting external policies, pushing the Chinese state in a far more provocative…