Looking at the world

Davos is on, and this year it is Trump who is the main speaker, as opposed to Xi last year. Much has changed in the past year, and most of it to the benefit of Beijing. The FT's excellent columnist Martin Wolf has an article about how sick Western democratic capitalism is, and it's certainly going through a rough patch. The CCP sees this, quite rightly, as the time to press forward with its view - that the international order should not inhibit China in any way.