The year 2022 ended with a Zoom call to end all Zoom calls: Presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping discussing all aspects of the Russia-China strategic partnership in an exclusive video call. Putin told Xi how “Russia and China managed to ensure record high growth rates of mutual trade,” meaning “we will be able to…
This multipolar megaproject was given a second wind following years of lackluster progress after emerging as Russia’s only remaining outlet to the international economy as a result of this year’s dramatic developments, which in turn accelerated that Eurasian Great Power’s grand strategic convergence with Iran and India. Conversations about Eurasian connectivity had hitherto been dominated…
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a TV interview in Moscow on Sunday, when asked about where the relationship between Russia and the West is moving, “Well, we are not moving. We have already arrived at a station named ‘Confrontation,’ and we have to be reserved, strong, to have underlying strength because we will have…
The pomp and ceremony of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent visit to Saudi Arabia has drawn comparison with the banality and frigid atmosphere surrounding US President Joe Biden’s trip to the kingdom in July. However, the main difference is that the Saudis organized three separate regional summits for Xi – aside from the bilateral summit,…
China’s ascendant global power is showing up the increasingly bankrupt condition of the United States and its Western allies. China is succeeding where the British, French and Japanese imperialist powers failed. This year saw the full operation of the China-Laos Railway, the first link in an ambitious Pan-Asian Rail Network that will integrate eight Southeast…
Xi Jinping’s visit to Saudi Arabia is heralding more tectonic changes in the rules of the Great Game in ways that few have begun to realize. While many people are quick to criticize China for having looked the other way while the atrocious Saudi-led offensive in Yemen has continued to kill hundreds of thousands of…
