Joel’s Christmas Poem – 2025 Candles flickering in the night, Gifts lay softly by the tree, We count our blessings in their light, Praying for peace, let hearts run free. Promoting world orders we could observe, Let fears subside, let borders disappear. Sharing destinies, efforts to amend, Peace… Read More »My Christmas Poem – 2025
🧭 Two Golden Rules, Two Moral Logics Western Golden Rule (WGR): Ethics of Action “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Rooted in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions, the Western ethic is proactive. It treats empathy as a mandate to act—improve others’ conditions as you would… Read More »🧭 Two Golden Rules, Two Moral Logics
Jensen Huang’s Five-Layer Cake: Who Leads the Global AI Race NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang argues that AI is not a single technology but a five-layer industrial stack. Leadership in the AI era depends on strength across all layers. His assessment shows a split world: the U.S. leads in frontier innovation,… Read More »Jensen Huang’s Five-Layer Cake: Who Leads the Global AI Race
For decades, the United States has sustained its global role through a blend of military primacy, institutional leadership, and moral rhetoric. But today, these pillars are increasingly out of alignment. The gap between American ambition abroad and American dysfunction at home has widened into a structural contradiction—one that undermines U.S.… Read More »America’s Strategic Contradiction: Power Without Coherence
Every country has a public face and a shadow. If you want to understand America’s, you don’t need a textbook—you only need to compare Jimmy Carter and Donald Trump. One spent his life proving that public service can be an act of humility. The other turned politics into… Read More »Quo Vadis America? The Carter or the Trump way?
A striking image captures today’s dilemma in U.S. foreign policy: an American eagle, symbol of power and ambition, finds itself ensnared in both the sands of the Middle East and the dense jungle of Venezuela. All the while, a Russian bear and a Chinese dragon watch closely from the sidelines,… Read More »Entangled Again: America’s Forgotten Middle East Lessons
Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard economist and former IMF chief economist, warns that the United States is facing a slow but steady erosion of its financial hegemony — a decline rooted in fiscal irresponsibility, institutional decay, and populist short-termism. For nearly eight decades since World War II, the U.S. dollar has served… Read More »The Slow Erosion of American Financial Dominance – Kenneth Rogoff
This report is a Public Opinion Survey titled “Americans Reverse Course on US-China Competition,” published by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Summary of Key Findings The survey, conducted in July 2025, reveals a significant shift in American public opinion regarding the US approach to China, moving away from a… Read More »Americans Reverse Course on US-China Competition
The Dutch government’s seizure of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia—headquartered in Nijmegen but owned by China’s Wingtech Technology—was meant to safeguard Europe’s technological sovereignty. However, the move has quickly backfired, exposing the fragility of Europe’s semiconductor supply chains and undermining investor confidence. The Netherlands invoked the Goods Availability Act, a Cold War–era… Read More »The Nexperia Saga – A Multi-billion Dollar Mistake?
The United States is on a path defined by denial, dysfunction, and decay—internally polarized, externally overextended, and strategically adrift. Its inability to self-correct stems from a system that prizes short-term power over long-term survival. The nation’s direction is unsustainable both domestically and abroad, and only a decisive U-turn can avert… Read More »Why the U.S. Is Headed in the Wrong Direction — And Why a U-Turn Is Necessary