At first sight 2024 has amplified a growing sense that the multilateral order which emerged from the second world war is coming apart. However, take a wider view, and the past year holds a more hopeful message econ.st/4fqqyEn

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The unbelievable has become commonplace in recent years, from a pandemic shutting down entire countries to a rocket returning to Earth and being caught by steel “chopsticks”. What could happen next? Here’s one scenario econ.st/3B1lZCq 🌐

“The Arctic is currently warming at four times the rate experienced by the rest of the planet. But the Antarctic has started to catch up, so that it is already warming twice as quickly as the planet overall.” buff.ly/4cUlKXD No time to waste. #ActOnClimate #climate

China’s progress in AI is startling because it had been so far behind—and because America had set out to slow it down econ.st/40PXVwe Illustration: Javier Jaén

What happens when you ditch the principles that underpinned global trade for three-quarters of a century? Donald Trump hopes to find out. The result could be a blow to the American and world economies alike econ.st/41kZZg1

“Pax Americana is gone. Born with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the U.S.-led international rules-based order died with the second inauguration of Donald J. Trump.” foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

A mafia-like struggle for global power has begun, with rules that do not suit America. Other countries are already planning for a lawless era econ.st/4hZ5lUe

Trump said Zelenskyy is ‘not winning this’ and cautioned the Ukrainian president that if he did not have US military equipment the war would have been over in two weeks. Follow live updates: on.ft.com/3QEjbzb

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You may not be interested in the world order—but it is interested in you. A new system comes with a new hierarchy econ.st/4igJwPI

The president’s bullying and bluster can be effective in the short run. But it is a wasting asset. As he alienates ever more friends, America’s clout will diminish econ.st/4kmaze7 Illustration: Javi Aznarez

Donald Trump has often professed his love of tariffs, believing they strengthen the American economy and generate revenue for the government. But many investors and company bosses had assumed that his protectionist talk was more bark than bite econ.st/4kqeaI1

Arab leaders have reportedly agreed to build around 200,000 new homes in Gaza as part of an alternative to Donald Trump’s “Middle East Riviera” plan telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

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“We need to be clear: while the American people may still be our friends, the Trump administration is no longer our ally,” warns the former French president in a guest essay for The Economist econ.st/3DaH5PT Illustration: Dan Williams

As the Trump administration dismantles key elements of the postwar international order, it could trigger a new round of nuclear proliferation—this time not by terrorists or rogues but by the countries formerly known as U.S. allies, writes Gideon Rose. foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

AI-related electricity consumption could increase global data-centre power demand by 50% by 2027, compared with 2023, estimates Goldman Sachs. Will the environmental benefits of the technology outweigh the costs? econ.st/3Ek93sN

🚨 BREAKING: Switzerland is launching a PUBLICLY developed LLM, focusing on compliance with Swiss data protection & copyright laws, and with the EU AI Act. Is this the European way? Should EU countries follow suit? The LLM will be launched by ETH Zurich and the Swiss Federal

Will artificial intelligence help — or harm — our capacity for critical thinking? I asked NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, in Part 3 of our wide-ranging conversation on the AI revolution: