Section: Policy
The Chinese world empire: a thwarted ambition?

The Chinese world empire: a thwarted ambition?

ANALYSE LONG FORMAT, Clément Guntern | Malgré une image conquérante et de vastes ambitions, le projet d’empire-monde chinois risque bien de se heurter à de nombreux obstacles. Corruption, vieillissement de la population, baisse de la croissance... Voici les raisons pour lesquelles la route n’est de loin pas encore dégagée pour Pékin.
Towards a Chinese century

Towards a Chinese century

In an unprecedented upheaval in human history, entire regions that had been synonymous with poverty and political chaos have emerged on the world stage. However, the West, which is largely responsible for this recent success, does not yet seem to have integrated the new global order: in the near future, it will no longer be the center of the world.
Foreigners' right to vote: the PS's endless logic

Foreigners' right to vote: the PS's endless logic

ARTICLE LONG FORMAT, Antoine Bernhard | Cinquante ans après l’arrivée du suffrage féminin en Suisse, les socialistes veulent l’élargir de façon généralisée aux étrangers résidant en Suisse. En janvier, le parti a déposé une intervention parlementaire et lancé une pétition en ligne pour promouvoir le «droit de vote pour toutes et tous». Par cette opération démagogique, le PS dévoile au grand jour sa nature révolutionnaire et démontre qu’il est bien souvent l’ennemi du peuple. Analyse.
Has Germany completed its revolution?

Has Germany completed its revolution?

LONG FORMAT ARTICLE, Clément Guntern | As September's general elections for the Bundestag draw nearer, there's an unexpected topic on which Germany's environmentalists could make the most profound changes since the end of the war. And it's not just the fight against climate change.
Arguing over rights: man is not an abstraction

Arguing over rights: man is not an abstraction

Communitarian discourse, currently in vogue and carried by minorities in need of an existence rather than victims of real repression, is torpedoing the fine 19th-century idea that the freedom of minorities should be preserved and defended, by transforming it into a weapon against freedom of expression, which includes, among other things, the right to humor. It is to be feared that the controversy provoked by French-speaking comedienne Claude Inga-Barbey's sketch dramatizing the difficulties of naming gender transformations illustrates an era marked by the thought police. From a philosophical point of view, this situation conceals an opposition between two types of universalism, that of proclaiming the rights of Man versus the rights of men.