NOURNEWS – Friedrich Merz’s two-day visit to China cannot be viewed merely as an economic trip. The visit gains meaning amid Germany’s domestic crisis, Europe’s widening gap with the United States, and the erosion of the West’s unilateral order — as a simultaneous effort to remain in power and to redefine Europe’s position in the emerging global order.

NOURNEWS – Trump has taken US foreign policy out of formal institutions and placed it in the hands of a small, trusted circle — a model based on deal-making, quick agreements and personal diplomacy that seeks to break deadlocks in Gaza, Iran and Ukraine with a “get yes first” approach.