Day 1,877: fiercest, reap

For decades the West was the world’s fiercest advocate for globalisation.

Today they are surrendering ground in the world’s fastest-growing and most populous markets. China is already reaping the rewards.

Chinese companies are winning the global south

Artwork of the day 
The Reaper after Millet
Vincent van Gogh
Date: 1889; France
Style: Post-Impressionism
Genre: genre painting
Media: oil, canvas
Location: Memorial Art Gallery (University of Rochester), Rochester, NY, US
Dimensions: 25 x 43.5 cm

Word of the day 
fiercest: the most physically violent and frightening:
reap: to cut and collect a grain crop:

Quote of the day
“The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,

Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.”

― Euripides, Medea and Other Plays