Welcome to the Shanghai Stage: Where the New Tyrants Rehearse for a Global Coup

The old world order may be dying — but the one rising in its place? That one doesn’t believe in freedom. Let’s not mince words: Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin didn’t stroll into Tianjin to talk trade and tea. They came to draw the battle lines of a post-American century. And behind the red carpet, the “Global Governance Initiative,” and those hollow pledges about “multilateralism,” lies a blueprint to dismantle the liberal democratic model and replace it with a cartel of authoritarians who don’t answer to voters, parliaments, or human rights courts — only to each other. The SCO: A Cartel for the Surveillance Century The Shanghai Cooperation Organization — what CNN calls “China’s biggest diplomatic event of the year”…