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View from China: The main task is to determine the boundaries of the Chinese-American game

11:20 23.11.2023

View from China: The main task is to determine the boundaries of the Chinese-American game

The meeting between Xi Jinping and Joe Biden showed how important it is to determine the boundaries of the Sino-American game, writes ‘Huanqiu Shibao’. These limits will increasingly depend on Beijing's economic power, diplomatic maneuvering and curbing Washington's competitive strategies, the article notes. What is the purpose of interaction between …

Biden’s support for the war in Gaza “is losing Arab publics for a generation”

11:18 23.11.2023

Biden’s support for the war in Gaza “is losing Arab publics for a generation”

This past weekend saw the publication of a disturbing report from Axios, following a phone call between Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Israeli counterpart. According to unnamed sources, the outlet reports, there are growing fears within the Biden administration that the Israeli government wants to provoke Hezbollah into starting …

Argentina: The newly elected President Javier Milei proposes large-scale reforms

11:17 23.11.2023

Argentina: The newly elected President Javier Milei proposes large-scale reforms

The newly elected President of Argentina, Javier Gerardo Milei, is proposing large-scale reforms that will take 35 years to implement. These include cutting government spending, abolishing the central bank and privatizing railways, airlines and oil companies, informs “La Nacion”. After the victory of Javier Milei in the 2023 elections, many …

Vladimir Putin: “All BRICS countries have similar positions on the need to collectively reach long-term and durable settlement of the long-standing Palestinian-Israeli problem”

11:56 22.11.2023

Vladimir Putin: “All BRICS countries have similar positions on the need to collectively reach long-term and durable settlement of the long-standing Palestinian-Israeli problem”

The BRICS group of nations Tuesday called for an immediate and sustained humanitarian truce in Gaza during an extraordinary summit. Pretoria hosted a virtual meeting of BRICS – a group of major emerging economies that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – aimed at drawing up a common …

FP: America is a heartbeat away from a war it could lose

11:52 22.11.2023

FP: America is a heartbeat away from a war it could lose

A real panic in Washington looks like this: a new article at “Foreign Policy” by A. Wess Mitchell, a principal at The Marathon Initiative and a former assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasia: The United States is a heartbeat away from a world war that it could lose. …

Visualizing $233 billions in Ukraine aid

11:49 22.11.2023

Visualizing $233 billions in Ukraine aid

This graphic uses data from the Ukraine Support Tracker to visualize the top 10 donors to Ukraine between Jan 24, 2022, and July 31, 2023. Ukraine has received over $230 billion in aid since 2022, ‘Visual Capitalist’ counted. EU institutions and the U.S. together account for almost 70% of the …

Reuters: Yuan catapults China to second-biggest trade funding currency

11:49 22.11.2023

Reuters: Yuan catapults China to second-biggest trade funding currency

Global companies are making a beeline for China's debt markets, issuing record amounts of yuan-denominated bonds and borrowing heavily from mainland banks, capitalizing on rock-bottom yuan interest rates as funding costs elsewhere jump. The surge in their borrowing from Chinese banks has catapulted the yuan past the euro into becoming …

Redefining success in Ukraine: They are thinking in America how to deceive Russia

11:45 21.11.2023

Redefining success in Ukraine: They are thinking in America how to deceive Russia

America is very tired of the war in Ukraine. Leading strategic experts offer their options for how to resolve the situation in the interests of the United States. It’s so interesting to read that Washington is ready for a truce between Kyiv and Moscow in order to turn it into …

US Navy at the Middle East: Another day – another war…

11:44 21.11.2023

US Navy at the Middle East: Another day – another war…

A massive US naval deployment in a wide arc of the so-called Greater Middle East is under way — stretching from Crete in the Eastern Mediterranean, into the Red Sea and the Bab el Mandeb and into the Gulf of Aden and all the way into the Gulf of Oman. …

POLITICO: The fall of geopolitical Europe

11:43 21.11.2023

POLITICO: The fall of geopolitical Europe

The EU’s approach to Ukraine held the premise of showing what a geopolitical Europe, as a peninsula of Eurasia, could mean – the Middle East reveals its demise, writes at POLITICO Nathalie Tocci, a director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, a part-time professor at the European University Institute and a …

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