The workplace is not designed for the kind of love I was offering. It is a structure built on outcomes, incentives, and self-interest. 

Let the imagination continue so that you, the reader, can experience the pain I am going through.

he historian Will Durant once observed that “Civilisation exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.”

China's core working-age population is contracting by millions of people every year. By the middle of this century, 

Modern China represents an entirely new genus of global power that cannot be compared to the British, French, or Japanese empires of old.

Traditional imperialism failed because it relied on rapid, violent territorial expansion that triggered its own destruction.