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[Link] China Is a Declining Power—and That’s the Problem
Read: 26/9/2021 foreignpolicy.com
Why do great powers fight great wars? The conventional answer is a story of rising challengers and declining hegemons. An ascendant power, which chafes at the rules of the existing order, gains ground on an established power—the country that made those rules.
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[Link] WB Yeats, the Spanish flu and an experiment in quarantine
Read: 22/8/2021 www.irishtimes.com
WB Yeats’s December 14th, 1918 letter to New York lawyer John Quinn alludes to the dramatic impact of the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 on the Yeats family.