"How membership of the Quad can be reconciled with India’s dire dependence on China for investment in manufacturing and the US’s barely-concealed hostility is a question ... Trump’s America has forced a reckoning; after him, we can’t die wondering"

"China is, by a kind of default, the guardian of the world’s environment."

"China ... the rational superpower, anchoring the global economy, leading the world in renewable power and electrical vehicles, even as Trump doubled down on fossil fuels. America’s longstanding bet on fracking and Trump’s hostility to wind and solar [surrenders] the future to China."

"there is very little daylight between Trump’s far-Right government and Europe’s centrist parties when it comes to countries and peoples outside the charmed circle of the West"

"the West doesn’t exist as a fellowship of wealthy, first-world countries. It is, instead, a euphemism for a cluster of mainly White client nations under American patronage which have traded in sovereignty for protection."

Everyone left of center should buy and learn to use a firearm yesterday. They are coming for us whether we like it or not.