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WP: The real lesson from the showy Xi-Putin meeting

11:11 24.03.2023

WP: The real lesson from the showy Xi-Putin meeting

Pentagon strategists have always divided the world into East and West, with U.S. regional forces under European Command or Indo-Pacific Command. But looking at the embrace of Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin this week, you wonder whether we may need a single “Eurasian Command” to handle an integrated threat, …

Mike Pompeo on Russian-China alliance: “We aren’t victims but have to be”

12:03 23.03.2023

Mike Pompeo on Russian-China alliance: “We aren’t victims but have to be”

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Fox News weighs in on the Biden administration's response to the meeting between Presidents Xi and Putin: - To hear the White House place this down as if it’s unimportant is a strategic mistake. They often speak in riddles but this is no …

Romania claims lands of Ukraine

10:33 23.03.2023

Romania claims lands of Ukraine

In the Romanian Parliament, Senator Diana Iovanovici-Șoșoacă revealed the contents of a surprising legislative initiative. In fact, we are talking about the "Law on the denunciation of the treaty with Ukraine and the annexation of our territories." Senator formulated her legislative initiative live as follows: the return of historical Romanian …

Credit Suisse Collapse – this is a robbery of Arab investors

10:33 23.03.2023

Credit Suisse Collapse – this is a robbery of Arab investors

Riding an oil-price boom last year, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman directed government-backed Saudi National Bank to make a $1.5 billion investment in Credit Suisse. Now, the Saudi investment is almost wiped out after Credit Suisse’s emergency merger with UBS Group AG, ‘The Wall Street Journal’ claims. Credit Suisse’s …

Bloomberg: “Among the 6.3 billion citizens of the world 70% now feel positively toward China and 66% likewise toward Russia”

10:31 23.03.2023

Bloomberg: “Among the 6.3 billion citizens of the world 70% now feel positively toward China and 66% likewise toward Russia”

“Today Western diplomacy is clumsy. The Cambridge’s Bennett Institute for Public Policy survey argues that America’s tendency to divide the world into friends and enemies — the “forces of democracy against autocracy” — has become self-fulfilling. Regimes that see themselves as victims of American hostility, especially because of local human-rights …

China portrays Xi’s Russia trip as bid for leadership of non-Western world

15:07 22.03.2023

China portrays Xi’s Russia trip as bid for leadership of non-Western world

For audiences in China, Xi Jinping’s visit to Russia this week was a show of strength and a testament to Beijing’s bid for global leadership, writes “The Washington Post” reviewing the Chinese press about the visit. “This visit will clearly tell the Americans that China is not to be intimidated. …

White House says it opposes a ceasefire in Ukraine

15:07 22.03.2023

White House says it opposes a ceasefire in Ukraine

The White House has come out against a ceasefire in Ukraine ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s trip to Moscow to potentially mediate between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his counterpart in Kyiv. Xi’s trip comes after Beijing released a 12-point peace plan for Ukraine that called for the two …

TIME: “Will China create a better world? At least it can make a safer world”

15:05 22.03.2023

TIME: “Will China create a better world? At least it can make a safer world”

China is everywhere in global politics. China is “ubiquitous,” a retired Senior Colonel Zhou Bo of China’s PLA told in a conversation with TIME magazine. On March 10, in an agreement brokered by Beijing, Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed to normalize relations, after seven years of bitter rivalry in a …

Russian-Chinese comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation for a New Era

9:36 22.03.2023

Russian-Chinese comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation for a New Era

President of China Xi Jinping was in Russia on a three-day state visit at Vladimir Putin's invitation. On March 20, the two leaders held a meeting. On March 21 Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping continued talks, informs Kremlin.ru. The two leaders discussed current issues of the further development of the …

The strategic situation in the Persian Gulf region has dramatically changed

9:36 22.03.2023

The strategic situation in the Persian Gulf region has dramatically changed

The China-brokered Saudi-Iranian normalisation of diplomatic relations. What has happened is an epochal event, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar, Indian Ambassador and prominent international observer. Henry Kissinger drew the analogy of his own accomplishment in an extraordinary diplomatic career when, as Secretary of State in the Richard Nixon administration, he helped achieve …

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