From Marco Polo to Marco Rubio – the West keeps rediscovering that China is a big Asian landmass with a mind of its own. So is Trump’s hawkish new Secretary of State about to get himself tangled in a Chinese finger trap of tariffs?  Meanwhile, back on the Europe thing, Multipolarity’s pet...

At the centre of the Global American empire, a storm is coming. But it’s in the European periphery that the effects will be the most acute.  Can anyone steer a path through the rocks?  We’ll be looking at chaos in the German auto industry - as Volkswagen overruns its cost budget by 20 per...

After the BRICS meeting in Kazan, a picture of a bundle of fake BRICS banknotes began to circulate online. Right up to a picture of Putin holding one, like a mobster holds a cigar.  The intent was mocking. But while the end goal of the kind of paper that rappers shove into g-strings is still a...