With G7 “leadership” mired in a sticky swamp of intellectual shallowness, predictably the only agenda in colonized Japan was more sanctions on Russia. Let’s start with a graphic depiction of where the Global North and the Global South really stand. 1. Xian, former imperial capital, and key hub of the Ancient Silk Roads: Xi Jinping…
China and Pakistan have an interest in jointly coordinating a media campaign to raise wider awareness of their respective claims to Kashmir, which could strengthen their strategic partnership at a crucial time while worsening ties with India. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Friday that his country won’t attend next week’s G20 event…
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is on a three-day trip to Africa, first stop Ethiopia, where he spoke to African Union (AU) chairperson Moussa Faki, in Addis Ababa, that integrating African nations into the G20 will ensure that they “can participate and have a say,” presumably meaning in world affairs. Scholz highlighted such topics of common…
Perhaps the most significant step in the recent changes within the G20 was the move to include the African Union as a permanent member of this global association. This step is significant because the G20 is inherently different from the G7, which has become a “club of selected supporters of the United States” thanks to…
There will be more confrontations, more divisions, more effort at ‘divide and rule’ strong arming both small and big nations at any possible geopolitical corner by the British. It seems to be yet unknown whether Rishi Sunak has yet fully recovered from the complete humiliation by Xi Jinping at the Bali summit in that Xi…
The Xi vs Biden meeting stood out a geopolitical mile for its vital importance or at least for its potential to make the world laugh at Biden’s faux pas. At this point in time we are looking at the G20 Bali Summit behind us waving a half grim goodbye to it remembering the sorrowful sight…
