Events That Shaped Our World in 2023
![Does the current US-China detente signal a thawing of relations?](https://d25ecq9zgd9hts.cloudfront.net/img/2023/12/xi-biden.jpg)
Neither of them wants an economic MAD (mutually assured destruction), and this is a tactical pause. This is the third column in our Year End Special series on making sense of the biggest economic and geopolitical shifts and what they signal