Contemporary China Review (2024 Spring/Summer Issue)

<p>As the Year 2024 has already passed half I sincerely hope and pray for world peace and for people to live and work in peace. But looking ahead I believe the future will still not be peaceful. The Russian-Ukrainian war is still raging and the people are suffering. The Israeli-Hamas conflict seems to have no signs of stopping and the US election is surging. As I said before the three major divisions facing the world are presented at the same time this year: the Russian-Ukrainian war is a major division between the democratic and dictatorial camps the US election is a major left-right division and the Israeli-Hamas conflict has surpassed the left-right division and the democracy-dictatorship division. Is the world heading for doomsday？ We wait and see.</p>