Howard W. French is a columnist at Foreign Policy, a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and a longtime foreign correspondent. His latest book is The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide.
Two men in dark suits standing outdoors. Donald Trump turns slightly toward Xi Jinping with his mouth open and his palms held upward in a gesturing motion. He wears a bright red striped tie. Xi has a slight smile, looking forward. He wears a dark burgundy tie. The background consists of blurred gray stone steps and a red carpet.
The shells of midrise residential buildings covered in scaffolding rise up against a clear blue sky. In the foreground are colorful tents and booths of vendors lining a street, where cars and vans pass by.
A giant U.S. flag on a screen takes up the entire frame, with a small man standing at the bottom of the image in front of the screen holding a picket sign that says "No New US Wars."
The top half of a man's face is shown—he's wearing aviator shades and a hat that reads CUBA. His hand is pointed in the air and he's next to a U.S. flag.
Protesters hold up a sign that reads: "Democracy Dies in DARKNESS. BEZOS is the DARK," as well as a poster of Bezos's face with a "GREEDY" sticker attached to the forehead.
