Free trade agreements between Mexico, Canada and the US (NAFTA since 1994 replaced by USMCA in 2020) reshaped economic relations across the continent - Who will step through the open door to US markets next ? and what industry is first in line ?
Sumo, a highly regimented Japanese sport, is embedded with rituals of mutual respect while China and the US, poking around in the diplomatic rule book without much luck, only seem to know of Sumo's pushing and shoving in the Western Pacific
To live up to the challenge and address the chronic diseases afflicting the population, biotech in China is committed for the long haul - R&D outcomes remain fickle and international license agreements get caught up in geopolitics
As a continental power exposed to potential enemies on its extended borders, China has to strike a balance between the show of material force for short-term advantage and legitimacy founded on soft-power influence
The aim in Weiqi, a Chinese board game, is for a player to surround more territory than the opponent by engaging an abstract strategy, which has been described as a foundation of Chinese thinking on the geopolitics of power
