Cutting through an overload of information to get to the heart of the story.
This is the point.
US President Donald Trump is destroying the post-war international order.
This is the official assessment of the 2026 Munich Security Conference,
which kicks off in the German city on Friday.
In its annual report released this week,
the conference says the Trump administration is taking an axe to the existing world order.
Europe is struggling to come to terms with this new reality and global economic uncertainty looms as the world shifts toward a new normal.
How is the Trump administration?
upending decades of international norms.
How will Europe navigate this new world and what's the view from China?
Welcome to this edition of The Point,
an opinion you're coming to hear from Beijing with me, Liu Xin.
Joining us today from Washington DC is Peter Kutznik,
history professor and director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at the American University from Rome,
Italy.
Ivan Cardillo,
chairman of the Italy-China Business Development Forum and here in our Beijing studio,
Professor Jiang Gong,
Professor of Economics at the University of International Business and Economics.