An ultra-liberal society is fundamentally incapable of dealing with people who are determined to take advantage of the freedom to corrode it from within.
The departure of Steve Bannon from the Trump administration allows America to stagger back to the more traditional form of international politics and diplomacy.
There are two ways to gain influence in a given region of the world – either intervention or developing infrastructure. China is showing the latter is a far better approach.
After all the idealism surrounding the election of Emmanuel Macron as French president, reality is beginning to bite, bringing sobering realism to Macron and those who supported him.
The recent G20 summit Hamburg didn’t achieve much, but it at least showed that multi-polarity is steadily replacing the old American unipolar model in world affairs.