Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • TIME

    A PRECARIOUS SPOTLIGHT

    Jan 21, 2022 3 minutes
    BY IAN BREMMER

    IN SUMMER 2008, THE BEIJING OLYMPICS MARKED A BIG moment in China’s progress toward global power. With that spotlight came controversy; activists used the event to highlight the government’s human-rights abuses, but the event’s triumphalist pageantry illustrated the story of China’s rise toward prosperity and prestige for a world audience.

    Since then, China’s ambitions have taken another leap forward. Under President Xi Jinping’s leadership over the past decade, China has gone

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from TIME

    TIME4 min readInternational Relations
    Fighting To Free Russia’s Political Prisoners
    Vladimir Putin’s presidential victory this march was more of a coronation than an election. With the political system heavily skewed in his favor and all significant opponents disqualified, jailed, or dead, the vote was almost entirely pro forma. Sti
    TIME9 min read
    Artists
    She moves with a lightness in a heavy world—bold, playful, and self-aware. She is thoughtfully outspoken for the oppressed and displaced. She founded an influential editorial platform, Service95, to cover cultural topics and address humanitarian conc
    TIME9 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
    Pioneers
    God blessed America. America Ferrera is an Oscar-nominated actress, activist, producer, director, writer, advocate, mother, wife, sister, daughter—you get the idea. There isn’t enough room on this page to include all her hyphenates. A simpler way of

    Related Books & Audiobooks