The relationship between Washington and Beijing is no longer merely a trade dispute or economic competition. It is a conflict over technology, supply chains, markets, influence, alliances, military capability, and the shape of the coming international order. Yet paradoxically, this conflict is unfolding between two powers that cannot fully decouple from one another.

China is prepared to open a new golden chapter in bilateral relations through cooperation with Uzbekistan. This was stated by President Xi Jinping during his meeting with Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan. 

France did not need a new protest to prove it is living through a deep civilizational crisis, but it perhaps needed a sign more telling than any previous one: that the anger would reach the doors of the schools, and that pupils themselves would take to the streets to protest against institutions no longer capable of providing what is supposed to be the most basic promise of the modern state:

Al-Rayah Newspaper: Issue 621 in English