The Washington Post

THE WASHINGTON POST – China — the world’s second-largest economy — is in the midst of a lengthy period of deflation. China’s leaders know it. They’re just not doing enough to fix it…

THE WASHINGTON POST – The Chinese government this month announced it was stopping overseas adoptions of Chinese babies, ending a three-decade program and leaving hundreds of waiting American families in limbo…

THE WASHINGTON POST – Morara Kebaso Snr is a Kenyan who describes himself in his online profile as “A Dangerously Intelligent Lawyer. Bishop of Merciless Peace & Chief Registrar of Broken Promises.” He is a campaigner against corruption and has attracted more than 137,000 followers on X by traveling around the country and posting videos…

THE WASHINGTON POST – What in the world happened to Kenya? This started out as a stellar year for the country. In May, President William Ruto was feted with a star-studded state dinner at the White House, the first in 16 years for an African head of state. President Biden named Kenya “a major non-NATO…

THE WASHINGTON POST – Hong Kong recently marked 27 years since the former British colony was handed over to China. In this time, the city has become less autonomous, more uncertain about its economic future and gripped more tightly by the Chinese Communist Party than most people, including me, ever imagined it would be…

THE WASHINGTON POST – That giant whooshing sound you may have heard coming from Africa’s southern tip was a collective sigh of relief. South Africa’s top two political parties — the ruling African National Congress and the longtime opposition Democratic Alliance — managed to put aside their differences to form a national unity government and…

THE WASHINGTON POST – Five years ago, on June 9, 2019, I watched 1 million people march through the streets of Hong Kong. Some put the crowd count higher. Police — as they do everywhere — put it lower. But it was a sea of humanity, stretching as far as I could see from my…

THE WASHINGTON POST – For nearly three decades, throngs of young Americans looking for an exotic overseas adventure have headed to China. They studied Mandarin. They went on exchanges at universities in Beijing and Shanghai, and far-flung cities such as Wuhan and Nanjing. They found jobs teaching English, writing for the proliferating number of English…

The United States, Mexico and Canada trade with one another under a pact that replaced the long-standing North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA. The Europeans have their single market and common currency. Southeast Asian countries have a free-trade agreement. And 11 Pacific Rim countries have formed their own free-trade group with the unwieldy acronym…

At a time when the world seems sorely lacking in global statesmen — larger-than-life figures who manage to shape world events, transcend national borders and become universally admired — I always hark back to Nelson Mandela…