Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union lists "the rule of law" as one of the values on which the Union is founded. It likes to adorn itself with this. But the adornment is fading and the hypocrisy is increasing.

The EU and US sanctions will not help the Uyghurs in the camps in Xinjiang. Sanctions feign a capacity for action on the part of the West that the West must first regain.

The new US administration wants to take a differentiated approach to China. There is no talk of complete disengagement at the moment. But what might a differentiated approach to China look like?

Donald Trump and Trumpism may not be over yet. The real battles with riot entrepreneurs may still lie ahead. Trump is likely to survive as a political icon.

The storming of the Capitol on 6 January 2020 will probably go down in history. This is reason enough to make a timely assessment, which, however, can only be preliminary. The storm made the deep divisions in US society visible.

It is questionable whether bitcoin will break the dominance of the U.S. dollar, as the Financial Times provocatively asked this week.