I like this @peterfrankopan piece, framing Alaska into a BRICS+ setting. He leaves it open at the end, as to whether Trump or China/BRICS have the upper but I think there's an important supplementary. 1/4 The real reason Trump’s Alaska summit matters spectator.co.uk/article/the-re…
Global trade and commerce is fragmenting, fracturing into blocs. The BRICS+ share of world GDP at PPP is neither here nor there. On every econ metric that matters bar pop size, indust prod and inv/GDP (all China), CRINKs et al are minnows comp to US and US leaning nations 2/4
So, while we may not like the changes going on in the world order and geopol, esp on US side, there's no point crying over spilled milk. The 'community of shared interest', much loved by the CCP, is actually how the US and US leaning bloc works, not China's and CRINKs. 3/4
Yes, it may stick in throat that US power is now defined less thru alliances from post war era and more as patron and bestower of favours but most of the rest of world can align more easily with this rthu gritted teeth than with incompatible and mercantilist China 4/4
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