Simone strikes again

Simone Wallmeyer, the face of the global financial crisis, looks like she’s in a slightly better mood today: Stock brokers go about their business at the stock exchange in the central German city of Frankfurt/M. on November 24, 2008. The DAX reacted positively to the US government’s promise to guarantee hundreds of billions of dollars ...

By , a former associate editor at Foreign Policy.
591394_081126_simone5.jpg
591394_081126_simone5.jpg

Simone Wallmeyer, the face of the global financial crisis, looks like she's in a slightly better mood today:

Simone Wallmeyer, the face of the global financial crisis, looks like she’s in a slightly better mood today:

Stock brokers go about their business at the stock exchange in the central German city of Frankfurt/M. on November 24, 2008. The DAX reacted positively to the US government’s promise to guarantee hundreds of billions of dollars of the banking giant Citigroup’s debt in a massive new bailout ahead of new global moves to lift the world economy.
MARTIN OESER/AFP/Getty Images

Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating

More from Foreign Policy

An illustration shows the Statue of Liberty holding a torch with other hands alongside hers as she lifts the flame, also resembling laurel, into place on the edge of the United Nations laurel logo.
An illustration shows the Statue of Liberty holding a torch with other hands alongside hers as she lifts the flame, also resembling laurel, into place on the edge of the United Nations laurel logo.

A New Multilateralism

How the United States can rejuvenate the global institutions it created.

A view from the cockpit shows backlit control panels and two pilots inside a KC-130J aerial refueler en route from Williamtown to Darwin as the sun sets on the horizon.
A view from the cockpit shows backlit control panels and two pilots inside a KC-130J aerial refueler en route from Williamtown to Darwin as the sun sets on the horizon.

America Prepares for a Pacific War With China It Doesn’t Want

Embedded with U.S. forces in the Pacific, I saw the dilemmas of deterrence firsthand.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, seen in a suit and tie and in profile, walks outside the venue at the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. Behind him is a sculptural tree in a larger planter that appears to be leaning away from him.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, seen in a suit and tie and in profile, walks outside the venue at the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. Behind him is a sculptural tree in a larger planter that appears to be leaning away from him.

The Endless Frustration of Chinese Diplomacy

Beijing’s representatives are always scared they could be the next to vanish.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan welcomes Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman during an official ceremony at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, on June 22, 2022.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan welcomes Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman during an official ceremony at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, on June 22, 2022.

The End of America’s Middle East

The region’s four major countries have all forfeited Washington’s trust.