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Is China more powerful than Russia? Are there limits to their partnership? Their strategic relationship amid Western criticism, explained.

Western states are taking democratic governance for granted and responding feebly to threats in their midst. With the crisis at the Ukraine-Russia border coming to a head, the 1930s offer lessons on the dangers of complacency in the face of a kind of semi-democracy.

A bellicose Russia, shorn of its empire and suffused with resentment, is being led by a leader intent on payback for the wrongs that he believes were inflicted upon his nation after the end of the Cold War by vengeful and unscrupulous Western powers.

Welcome to Friday, where G7 leaders meet for crunch talks on Ukraine, Africa sees its first case of polio in five years and wow that’s one big strawberry. We also take a look at the way some countries around the world are dealing with witch hunts (the literal kind) both past and present.

Western states are taking democratic governance for granted and responding feebly to threats in their midst. With the crisis at the Ukraine-Russia border coming to a head, the 1930s offer lessons on the dangers of complacency in the face of a kind of semi-democracy.

Welcome to Friday, where G7 leaders meet for crunch talks on Ukraine, Africa sees its first case of polio in five years and wow that’s one big strawberry. We also take a look at the way some countries around the world are dealing with witch hunts (the literal kind) both past and present.

The US President wants to promote global democracy and defeat China in the battle for global supremacy, but those goals may be in conflict.

The US President wants to promote global democracy and defeat China in the battle for global supremacy, but those goals may be in conflict.

The US President wants to promote global democracy and defeat China in the battle for global supremacy, but those goals may be in conflict.

The rise of China and resurgence of Russia, combined with other trends, have significantly weakened U.S. hegemony in a rapidly transforming international landscape. This week on Trend Lines, Daniel Nexon joins WPR weekly columnist Howard French to discuss the changing global order and the United States’ place in it.