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
Day: April 29, 2018
Modi Predictably Fails to Seize the Opportunities Offered to India by Chinese President Xi Jinping
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
Peace on the Horizon for Korean Peninsula, But Maybe Not if the US Has Its Way
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
North Korea’s “New” Course, and its Nuclear Missile Moratorium
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
Macron’s Tough Message to Washington
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
The Syrian Strikes Didn’t Start WWIII, But They Did Confirm the New Cold War
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
“Old Europe” Comes to Washington
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
Why Orthodox Churches Are Still Used as Pawns in Political Games
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
