The Mosaic Nature of Sino-European Relations Remains Complex

The Mosaic Nature of Sino-European Relations Remains Complex

In fact, the use of the word “mosaic” in the comprehensive description of Sino-European interactions precludes an illustrative and simplistic (“explained via hand gestures”) interpretation. The phrase “remains complex” indicates that there is no current effort toward “simplification” of this statement. All of the aforementioned factors, which frequently contradict one another, remain in Europeans’ dealings…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – The Israel Lobby’s Useful Idiot

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – The Israel Lobby’s Useful Idiot

The long nightmare of oppression of Palestinians is not a tangential issue. It is a black and white issue of a settler-colonial state imposing a military occupation, horrific violence and apartheid, backed by billions of U.S. dollars, on the indigenous population of Palestine. It is the all powerful against the all powerless.  Israel uses its modern weaponry against a captive population that has no…

Are We Heading Into a Global Surveillance Superstate and Why?

Are We Heading Into a Global Surveillance Superstate and Why?

Within rapidly advancing tech sectors of capitalist economies an invisible interface between internet infrastructure, the state and the military-industrial complex has been developed, with decidedly negative and oppressive outcomes. Silicon Valley in the US is the global epicentre of this big data cartel and its practices are highly dubious, decidedly unethical.  Tech corporations are vastly…

Central Asia is the Prime Battlefield in the New Great Game

Central Asia is the Prime Battlefield in the New Great Game

The historical Heartland – or Central Eurasia – already is, and will continue to be, the prime battlefield in the New Great Game, fought between the United States and the China-Russia strategic partnership. The original Great Game pitted the British and Russian empires in the late 19th century, and in fact, never got away: it…

Time for China’s Military to Safeguard Serbia, Syria and Southern Sudan

Time for China’s Military to Safeguard Serbia, Syria and Southern Sudan

If China wants peace, they should take the old Latin maxim to heart and prepare for war by getting some invaluable practical experience in Serbia, Srpska, Syria and Southern Sudan, Declan Hayes writes. Although Stephen Karganovic’s recent article argued that the Wagner Group should send peace-keeping forces to the Republic of Srpska, the greater hope…