In late October, while much of the world was focused on the buildup to the U.S. elections, President Xi Jinping of China was issuing a call for global resistance to the American-led world order. Speaking in Kazan, Russia, at the summit of BRICS nati

The irony is extreme: This year’s annual United Nations climate change summit is in Baku, Azerbaijan, the petrostate where the modern oil industry was born. And it’s taking place in the weeks after the United States elected Donald J. Trump president