Political statements made before and after elections frequently diverge drastically. To a casual observer, it may appear that we are not discussing the same country. This is not even a matter of internal politics, where candidates lavishly spread slogans like “power to the people,” “only the people are masters of the state’s fate,” “corruption is…
Europe it seems is (broadly) moving in the same direction as U.S. politics, Alastair Crooke writes. The backlash has started. It has been slow to emerge, and is lagging that of the U.S., yet it has begun in earnest. It is, as Wolfgang Münchau, a former FT journalist and editor of EuroIntelligence, has observed: “a…
The US and the EU have now developed the closest for the past three decades positions on the PRC, according to the US Department of State. On Tuesday, May 30, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was visiting Sweden, made a very ambiguous statement regarding China. At a joint press conference with Swedish Prime…
China must have used their diplomatic efforts to try and unravel the mysteries of how far the U.S. is ‘hell-bent’ on fueling further escalation of the European crisis. China is expending great diplomatic efforts to peacefully unravel the mysteries of how far the United States is hell-bent on fueling the escalation of the European crisis….
The EU has shown the entire MENA region that is has pots of cash to prop up the most brutal dictators to prevent migrants from reaching its shores. What word would you use to describe the EU diverting a billion euros towards the coffers of Tunisia’s despot Kais Saied? ‘Blackmail’ seems to spring to mind….
The geopolitical shift since the 1990s was initiated by the implosion of the Soviet Union. It manifests itself in the dismantling of its area of influence, as well as the advance of NATO to the Baltic and the Russian border. Productive internationalization intensified through global value chains. Since unipolarity, the United States led invasions in…
