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Yuen Yuen Ang

Yuen Yuen Ang is Professor of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University, where she directs The Polytunity Project and The Multipolar World & US-China Roundtables.

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The global ‘polytunity’

Conflicts, trade wars, inequality and democratic decay fill today’s headlines. Each crisis appears to be feeding the next and it can feel as though the world is coming apart. Western leaders and thinkers have embraced a single word to capture this entanglement of threats: “polycrisis.”

November 27, 2025