China’s International Development Cooperation Is a Stunning Success

January 20, 2021

One of the most significant chapters in China's newly released white paper concerns its support of developing countries' endogenous growth, which crucially contradicts the US' information warfare narr…

How Russia Is Building Its Leverage in the Caucasus

January 20, 2021

Opinion

A meeting of the leaderships of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Kremlin on January 11, exactly two months after the ceasefire in the 44-day Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, can be seen as a robust pus…

Egypt’s Search for a Fig Leaf: It’s Not the Handball World Championship

January 20, 2021

Opinion

Hosting major sports tournaments can confer prestige on a country, but in the case of Egypt, the 2021 Handball World Championship will do little to repair its relations with the US, Italy and states i…

Israel Is Losing the Fight to Obscure Its Apartheid Character

January 20, 2021

Opinion

For more than a decade, a handful of former Israeli politicians and US diplomats identified with what might be termed the "peace process industry" have intermittently warned that, without a two-s…

Big Tech and the Democratic Party Are Leading America to a Fascist Future

January 20, 2021

Opinion

Although there may not be tanks on the streets and a dictator inciting crowds from his bully pulpit, the end result has been pretty much the same. Most Americans can probably still remember a time whe…

Twitter has Found an Unlikely Enemy in an Angry Political Class That Doesn’t Want to be Silenced

January 20, 2021

Opinion

With Twitter banning Donald Trump, there has been an odd backlash from international politicians. The upcoming battle between the political class and Silicon Valley may be the only chance to restore s…

Can China Lead a World Economic Recovery?

January 20, 2021

Opinion

At the beginning of December China’s Xi Jinping officially declared that China had eliminated poverty entirely, part of his priority program. Western financial pundits have praised the remarkable econ…

America and the Mob

January 20, 2021

Opinion

The United States began as a glint in the eyes of an English mob of oddballs, dissenters, and criminals let loose on what they considered virgin territory. Once secure in their new digs, they administ…