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Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with then-US Vice President Joe Biden in 2013. REUTERS/Lintao Zhang/Pool/File Photo Chinese negotiators surprised their European Union counterparts this week with key market-access concessions—following long months of intransigence—that could allow the two parties to reach an agreement on a historic investment deal by year’s end. Though EU officials haven’t yet revealed the details, one senior EU diplomat said the agreement goes beyond anything Beijing has offered any foreign partner previously, both in the level of market access and legal a...

The top ten risks and opportunities for 2021 It’s not being called the “year from hell” for nothing. The pandemic, the kind of “grey swan” event that is predicted but never pinpointed in time, finally came calling in 2020, aggravated by deepening political division and tribalism. International institutions continued to fragment, with the United States withdrawing from the World Health Organization right in the middle of the plague and engaging in obstructionist behavior in other multilateral organizations.  Yet there were rays of light even in the abyss. Democracy prevailed in th...