None of the insight shared in this analysis should be misinterpreted as predicting the success of the G7’s planned strategic engagement with Central Asia, but simply as raising awareness of it. A lot can happen to derail their plans, so nobody should take their success in any respect for granted. Nevertheless, they should still be…
The Foreign Secretary’s special briefing on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Asia-Pacific tour (May 19-24) dovetailed skilfully into three summit meetings, and brings to mind an institution of the Middle Ages known as the “wandering minstrels”. Wealthy people used to employ minstrels to entertain them in their homes. These wandering minstrels told stories, recited poems, sang…
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…
On May 19-21, 2023, Hiroshima, Japan will host the G7 summit. It is already clear that it will take place in an atmosphere of Western exceptionalism, as evidenced by the results of the last ministerial meeting in the city of Karuizawa, where high-ranking diplomats from the G7 expressed their position on a number of issues. These…
Last summer, the Group of 7 (G7), a self-anointed forum of nations that view themselves as the most influential economies in the world, gathered at Schloss Elmau, near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, to hold their annual meeting. Their focus was punishing Russia through additional sanctions, further arming of Ukraine and the containment of China. At the same…
Had the US wanted to deploy NATO forces to that crumbling former Soviet Republic, then it would have done so immediately after Zelensky asked to join NATO late last month or at least under the cover of G7 peacekeepers in response to his second related plea on Tuesday. Instead, the Ukrainian leader was made to…
