Great Power

Even with all the various difficulties, Xi is betting that Beijing will be able to withstand any economic pain longer than Washington in this great power competition.

The tariffs give us great power to negotiate.

Beijing frustrates India's great power ambitions by blocking its membership in influential groupings like the Nuclear Suppliers Group and permanent membership on the UN Security Council.

Second, Zelensky should accept the geographical fact that Ukraine shares a roughly 1,400-mile border with a great power.

If the world is teetering on a return of great power conflicts, how do the multinationals, the megacorporations, and other powerful and extremely wealthy and influential forces – who have their own private militaries or can hire them easily — play in the story?