Five continents, five rhythms in 2025 By Maria Luiza Falcão Silva | China Daily | Updated: 2025-12-23 07:29

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202512/23/WS6949d44ba310d6866eb2feae.html The year 2025 made it clear that the planet no longer moves in a single rhythm. Each continent lives its own historical tempo, creating a global mismatch — accelerated time in the Global South, regressive time in the Global North, suspended time in Europe, futuristic time in Asia and a state of maximum alert in the Pacific. Five clocks, five pulses and five simultaneous futures.