What’s CPEC, and How Does the Future of the Multipolar World Depend on It?

What’s CPEC, and How Does the Future of the Multipolar World Depend on It?

Andrew just returned from Pakistan’s National Defence University where he was lecturing on the geostrategic significance of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, and he’s eager to share his insight with Sputnik’s readers. The world order is going through profound changes in transitioning from the Western-controlled unipolar system to the non-Western model of multipolarity, and the ongoing multifaceted friction between the opposing forces…

Why Washington is Terrified of Russia, China

Why Washington is Terrified of Russia, China

The Russia-China strategic partnership, uniting the Pentagon’s avowed top two “existential” threats to America, does not come with a formal treaty signed with pomp, circumstance – and a military parade. Enveloped in layers of subtle sophistication, there’s no way to know the deeper terms Beijing and Moscow have agreed upon behind those innumerable Putin-Xi Jinping high-level meetings. Diplomats, off the…

Trump Administration All at Sea: the Bizarre Voyage of the Carl Vinson

Trump Administration All at Sea: the Bizarre Voyage of the Carl Vinson

The US’s game of deception about the movements of the Carl Vinson during the North Korean crisis has damaged the US’s credibility and earned it deserved ridicule. The saga of the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson and its battle group serves as a good example of all that is wrong with the Trump administration’s conduct of…

Russia Warns US Against ‘Syria-Style’ Actions in North Korea

Russia Warns US Against ‘Syria-Style’ Actions in North Korea

Mike Pence’s statement on the US running out of “strategic patience” towards Pyongyang does not contribute to resolving the crisis, Sergey Lavrov said, voicing hopes there will be no repeat of the US strike on Syria in North Korea. “I hope that there won’t be any unilateral actions like we recently saw in Syria and…