Joe Biden’s New Bourbons and Their Grapes of Wrath

Joe Biden’s New Bourbons and Their Grapes of Wrath

Even after a revolution that cost millions of lives and a quarter century of war that devastated all of Europe from Portugal to Moscow, the restored Bourbon kings of France, their wisest and most cynical adviser Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord lamented, had learned nothing and forgotten nothing. But of course Talleyrand was really 200 years ahead…

The U.S. Election Is Not Over

The U.S. Election Is Not Over

President Putin is correct not to congratulate Joe Biden on being elected. There are two reasons. The first is that the complex U.S. election process has not finished; therefore, as Trump has not conceded, there is no “President-elect”. The second reason is that the results may be overthrown by reason of fraud. In which case,…

The Elections in the United States: a Middle Eastern Perspective

The Elections in the United States: a Middle Eastern Perspective

“Donald Trump – the true face of the United States”, “The Arabs and the new American Administration”, “Biden, Arabs, and the Gulf”. These and similar headlines are interspersed in the flow of materials that have appeared in the Middle Eastern media about the situation with suspending the results following the American elections, and their influence…

A New Strategy for China with Biden? Or is it Too Late?

A New Strategy for China with Biden? Or is it Too Late?

During the Obama era, in which Biden served as Vice President, the US approached China quite differently. Will Biden be able to revert to a softer strategy? Donald Trump’s trade war with China is now being hailed by voices of Neoliberalism as an accomplishment. An editorial in The Economist wrote: “The achievement of the Trump…