As Washington’s leadership fades more quickly than anyone could have imagined and a new global order struggles to take shape, a generation of leaders has crowded on to the world stage with their own bold geopolitical visions for winning international influence. Xi Jinping has launched his trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative to dominate Eurasia and thereby the world beyond. To recover the Soviet Union’s lost influence, Vladimir Putin seeks to shatter the Western alliance with cyberwar, while threatening to dominate a nationalizing, fragmenting Eastern Europe through raw military power. The dailyReport Must-reads from across Asia - directly to your inbox Donald Trump’s White House, in turn, is wielding tariffs as weapons to try to beat recalcitrant allies back into line and cripple the planet’s rising power, China. However bizarrely different these approaches may seem, they all share one strikingly similar feature: a … [Read more...] about Five academics who unleashed the ‘demon’ of geopolitical power