China starting to write the 21st century narrative

When the United States gave up on the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, many saw it was more than the unwinding of a trade deal, and instead saw it as marking the limits of the Pax Americana.

US president-elect Donald Trump might be able to make his country great again, but even the resources of a booming America will be too stretched to continue underwriting the global order.

Going isolationist operationalizes an underlying reality, or, more positively, sets the stage, for the US to work out a more profitable geopolitical bargain.