April 29, 2018 | Astute News

Why Pakistan Should Ditch America and Boost Ties with Russia

April 29, 2018

In February 2018 Pakistan’s foreign minister, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, visited Moscow where his counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, said that Russia is “planning to continue giving practical assistance in stren…

Modi Predictably Fails to Seize the Opportunities Offered to India by Chinese President Xi Jinping

April 29, 2018

Opinion

In typical Chinese style, President Xi Jinping invited India to embrace a spirit of cooperation, Asianism and the win-win mentality that would be mutually benefit to both large Asian powers, but parti…

Peace on the Horizon for Korean Peninsula, But Maybe Not if the US Has Its Way

April 29, 2018

Opinion

This week, the North and South Korean leadership held an historic meeting, eroding decades-long hostility between the two countries but does this signal the end of the “North Korean crisis,” or is it …

North Korea’s “New” Course, and its Nuclear Missile Moratorium

April 29, 2018

Opinion

On April 20, in Pyongyang, the Third Plenary Meeting of the Seventh Central Committee of the Worker’s Party of Korea was held “to discuss the policy issues of a new stage in line with the demand of th…

Macron’s Tough Message to Washington

April 29, 2018

Opinion

France likes to call itself America’s oldest and closest ally. Indeed, the American Revolution might never have succeeded without strong French military support. However, France bankrupted itself supp…

The Syrian Strikes Didn’t Start WWIII, But They Did Confirm the New Cold War

April 29, 2018

Opinion

There are differing motivations that drove the US, UK, and France to bomb Syria. Most people have already heard a lot of commentary about the US’ reasons for doing so, which were mostly to send a sign…

“Old Europe” Comes to Washington

April 29, 2018

Opinion

Fifteen years ago, in the run-up to the US-British invasion of Iraq, the US media was ferociously denouncing Germany and, in particular, France for failing to line up behind the US war drive. Defense …

Why Orthodox Churches Are Still Used as Pawns in Political Games

April 29, 2018

Opinion

First, a disclaimer: today I am going to touch upon a subject which is intensely painful for me and which will get quite a lot of my readers angry at me. Frankly, I did everything I could not to discu…