In terms of geopolitical optics, this week was nothing short of a banquet. It served up at least two sets of images that seem to crystallize our historical moment and that will live on in the Wikipedia of history as shorthand for where the world was in 2025.
One is the waves of uncannily synchronized soldiers and a bewildering array of high-tech weaponry gliding down Beijing’s Chang’an Avenue. The ...
Author: Firdaus Cahyadi
Firdaus Cahyadi works as a consultant for an international environmental organization while pursuing a post-graduate program in environmental science at IPB University, Indonesia. Firdaus actively writes about environmental issues in Indonesia’s largest newspapers including KOMPAS, TEMPO, Bisnis Indonesia, and others.
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