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The White West and the Geopolitics of Energy

It is absolutely mind-blowing how the Israeli and U.S. attacks on Iran are being presented and justified. We are fed the same set of excuses on an endless loop: nuclear proliferation, regional security threats, the corruption of the Iranian regime,…

The US Military Campaign Against Iran Is Part Of Trump’s Grand Strategy Against China

The goal is to obtain proxy control over Iran’s enormous oil and gas reserves so that they can be weaponized as leverage against China for coercing it into a lopsided trade deal that would derail its superpower rise and therefore…

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz visiting Chinese enterprises

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrived in Hangzhou, east China’s Zhejiang Province, on Thursday noon, continuing his official visit to China. At Unitree Robotics, he watched humanoid robots performing different tasks and was impressed by their agile movements. Merz also visited…

Bangladesh’s Foreign Policy in Transition: Key Challenges

“Friendship to All, Malice to None” is the main motto of Bangladesh’s foreign policy. It portrays Bangladesh’s intention to the external world that they seek to keep foreign relations through the respect of the sovereign state, regional integrity, not interested…

China: reconverting taxi drivers in the era of the robotaxi

China has not waited for robotaxis to massively displace drivers before asking what to do with them. The expansion of autonomous driving in cities such as Wuhan, Shenzhen, or Beijing is not presented as an isolated experiment, but as an…

China and Vietnam strengthen political dialogue and regional stability

In Beijing, on Thursday, February 5, a high-level meeting was held between Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and Tô Lâm, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of…

Looking at China from Inside the United States

Peering out from the United States, it’s hard to see much of China. One learns general facts and gathers views from a small number of people. But I can’t make a lot of sense out of this 4% of humanity…

Adapting to geopolitical changes: a necessary skill to avoid going astray on international issues

To understand political events, it is important to approach them from a historical perspective, but things change rapidly, and we must also adapt to the present. This requires grounding our thinking in the current circumstances. The historian’s perspective, essential for…

Canadian Prime Minister Carney to build new strategic partnerships in visits to the People’s Republic of China

Canada’s new government is moving our economy from reliance to resilience – building our strength at home, working to double our non-U.S. exports, and attracting massive new investment. To those ends, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, today announced that he will…

China Finances New ECOWAS Headquarters 

(Moscow Bureau) – Under a signed bilateral agreement, China has completed and will hand over, in February 2026, the new headquarters (building) located in Abuja, Nigeria, to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). It is a significant part…

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