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Very old history has a way of keeping its grip on current events. Now some very old history has thrust an eight-year-old boy into an international

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Texas ranchers are on the brink of booting out Chinese billionaire Sun Guangxin (right) who has bought more than 130,000 acres of farmland in the state, sparking fears over national security.

War and politics could make on-the-ground study of China and Russia difficult, if not impossible.

That the biggest protests in decades began with the deaths of Uyghurs should not be treated as a footnote.

A Chinese billionaire and member in good standing of the Chinese Communist Party snapped up 140,000 acres in Texas and plans a wind farm.

Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, Lenin defined the five “basic features” of imperialism: (1) the concentration of production and capital developed to such a high stage that it created monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life; (2) the merging of banking capital with industrial capital, and the creation, on the basis of this “finance capital,” of a financial oligarchy; (3) the export of capital as distinguished from the export of commodities acquires exceptional...

There is no reasoning with someone who has built an entire worldview around the conviction that, as George Bernard Shaw put it, a particular country is the best in the world because they were born in it. 1 Shaw’s stinging put-down was actually meant as a definition of patriotism, but it works just as well, or better, when applied to what Orwell once called “the great modern disease of nationalism.” No honest debate on world affairs is possible with an interlocutor who keeps switching into...