Global Policy & Analysis
Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister warned that the US is trying to use India to “contain” China, which shows that Moscow is well aware of the strategy at play and no longer sees the need to “play along” and pretend that New Delhi is innocently “multi-aligning”, but this public realization makes […]
China’s Foreign Ministry has confirmed the arrest of Canadian national Michael Spavor. Spavor is a businessman who is perhaps most famous for organising tours of the DPRK (North Korea) for westerners. Spavor met with DPRK leader Kim Jong-un long before Donald Trump ever did and reportedly helped to arrange some of […]
France’s peculiar political system One of the peculiarities of the French political system which is similar to some of the peculiarities of the Russian political system, is that rather than overseeing a US style congress, the directly elected French President oversees a National Assembly that is more similar to a […]
I am a political and economic centrist who happens to be highly anti-war and anti-imperialist, but without being a traditional pacifist. And yet few of the people who in the 21st century call themselves centrists (particularly in North America and Europe) have anything remotely to do with my style of […]
It has been said that a bully who inflicts physical harm on his victims should be stood up to, as when such a thing happens, the bully backs down in the manner of a coward. After all, most bullies are in fact cowards. However, when it comes to being a […]
Vietnam claims that “Israel’s” SPYDER surface-to-air missiles malfunction in tropical environments such as its own and importantly aren’t compatible with its majority-Russian-provided military wares, auguring quite negatively for the self-proclaimed “Jewish State’s” ambitions to expand its influence across the wider “Global South” by means of “military diplomacy” and possibly leading […]
Sudan’s proposal to have Russian companies help construct the East-West and North-South Trans-African Railways could reshape African geopolitics if Moscow succeeds in leveraging its possibly newfound strategic position in this sphere to “balance” between the two emerging blocs in the modern-day “Scramble for Africa”. Sudan just proposed during an […]
It has been said that “the job of an opposition is to oppose” and when it comes to the Democratic Party of the United States, the figure of Donald Trump has become a linchpin for a breathtakingly wide range Democratic ire. While Trump is one of the most volatile leaders […]
Erdogan announces forthcoming military operations in north-eastern Syria Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stated that the armed forces of the country will commence a new anti-terror operation east of the River Euphrates in Syria. While such an operation has long been discussed and while Ankara has been very clear about […]
On 11 December, three important developments occurred regarding the political imprisonment of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou. First, with no formal extradition request from the United States forthcoming, a Canadian judge temporarily freed Meng on a whopping $10 million bail. Then it was announced that former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig was arrested in […]
