And also, the new cold war with china. How did washingtons relationship with beijing get so bad . What does the big chill mean for china, for america and the world . But first, heres my take. We have been talk thing a lot in recent days about the supreme court, and the midterm elections and immigration policy, but the Trump Administrations most significant decisions will be about u. S. Policy toward china. The big question is whether the 21st century is going to be marked by conflict or cooperation between the two most powerful and prosperous countries on the planet. The last time that there was such a question when britain confronted a rising germany 150 years ago, things did not work out so well. Since the end of the cold war, we have been living in an era of almost no genuine Great Power Competition which has led to the emergence of a dynamic Global Economy and huge expansion of international travel, trade, culture and contact. And all of this happened under americas uncontested sup
marie slaughter and evo dalder and max mudd and so you were saying that we should act tougher with sanctions against saudi arabia. is that lukely to happen? a lot of people are looking at this and saying that saudi arabia is so rich and so much money, an inevitably there is going to be what you describe as the fatigue, and you can already see it with the saudi investment conference and media organizations have pulled out and none of the big banks have fulled out and none of the big financial institutions hoping to get saudi money have pulled out, and won t this pass? well, uber has also pulled out which is interesting in terms of their perception, and their customer base, because the younger people are pushing.