The Trump-Kim Deal Is the First Example of the “New Washington Consensus”

The Trump-Kim Deal Is the First Example of the “New Washington Consensus”

The US is rolling out a new approach for managing the emerging Multipolar World Order, and the Trump-Kim deal is expected to be its centerpiece in showing other countries what the New Washington Consensus entails. America’s Response To Multipolarity The successful Trump-Kim Summit in Singapore saw the two leaders agree to begin the process of…

The Issues of Trade and Politics at the Current Stage of the US-Chinese Relations

The Issues of Trade and Politics at the Current Stage of the US-Chinese Relations

Separating the political and the trade and economic factors when analysing the relations between two states is artificial as such. It makes sense only in cases when this or that factor becomes predominant in the given time period. Over the recent months, the relations between the two global leaders (the US and China) saw the…

The Indo-Pacific Command Is All About “Containing” China Through India

The Indo-Pacific Command Is All About “Containing” China Through India

The US military rechristened its Pacific Command to the Indo-Pacific Command as a means of strongly signaling its growing interest in India and its eponymous ocean. The importance of this development shouldn’t be underestimated because it sets the strategic basis for the US’ 21st-century policy of “containing China”. The People’s Republic depends just as much…

Putin and Xi Top the G6+1

Putin and Xi Top the G6+1

East vs. West: the contrast between the “dueling summits” this weekend was something for the history books. All hell broke loose at the G6+1, otherwise known as G7, in La Malbaie, Canada, while all focused on divine Eurasian integration at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in China’s Qingdao in Shandong, the home province of Confucius….

Should the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Attempt to Solve the Kashmir Crisis?

Should the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Attempt to Solve the Kashmir Crisis?

The SCO correctly promises not to meddle  In 2017 when both India and Pakistan joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), the group made it clear that its official position was to treat the Kashmir crisis as an internal matter for both India and Pakistan and therefore the SCO would not directly mediate in the conflict…

Ten Years On, Putin Told Them So

Ten Years On, Putin Told Them So

You can hardly blame Russian President Vladimir Putin for enjoying a “told you so moment”. He lately reminded European leaders that their all-out spat with the United States is what happens when you are too deferential to American hegemonic ambitions. This predicament is just what the Russian leader had warned against almost 10 years ago in a…