Rubio and Xi: Power Before the Ruins
October 10, 2026On 7 October, from the Pnyx hill in Athens, where the citizens’ assembly once gathered, with the Parthenon in the background, Marco Rubio sought to enlist the past in an attempt to preserve the West’s standing. A few months earlier, in May in Beijing, and again on 24 September in Washington, Xi Jinping had…