The Turnberry System is a way to replace the WTO-based postwar multilateral trading system with bilateral agreements. It marks a significant turning point in global trade rules and will profoundly impact the global trade landscape.

It is highly anticipated that even with a continued mix of tensions and collaboration, 2026 will see more of the positive and less of the negative, thus benefiting the people of both countries and the world at large.

The recently released 2025 NSS, shows the limits of decoupling. Defending core interests while designing layered mechanisms that preserve cooperation is the only rational way for the United States and China to avoid mutual destruction and global stagnation.

The national development strategy advocates for a multipolar world and seeks to implement global initiatives on development, security, civilization and governance. It opposes hegemony, defends justice and promotes a world of lasting peace, prosperity, openness and sustainability.

Two separate announcements tell how Trump’s tariffs left China’s exports unscathed while quietly taxing American households.

For decades, Western multinationals and tech firms built Malaysia’s export base while China financed its railways, ports, and industrial zones -- a balance Kuala Lumpur managed with unusual ease. Now, rare-earth ambitions are pulling that equilibrium in new directions, intensifying debates at home over control, national interest, and how far neutrality can stretch.

As geopolitical tensions rise, competition for the cutting-edge science and talent that underpins advanced technology has heated up. The United States, China, and other major powers now regard leadership in areas like AI, semiconductors, quantum technologies, and biotechnology as central to military capability, economic security, and ideological influence.

Another great transformation is underway in China. The world’s factory is fast becoming its first electro-state, with an economy increasingly built on clean energy, AI, advanced manufacturing, and control of key strategic materials. This new model is full of promise, though it faces major challenges.

A world order without the United States has been discussed widely. One example relates to reform of the World Trade Organization, whose dispute settlement mechanism has been paralyzed by the U.S. since 2019. Now there could be a solution.

Brussels is retreating from the very multilateral order it once championed. The challenge now is enabling European companies to thrive within a competitive environment. True strategic autonomy will not be achieved through protectionism disguised as regulation.