What If Russia Wins?
If the Kremlin’s calculus is right, as in the end it was in Syria, then the United States and Europe should also be prepared for an eventuality other than quagmire. What if Russia wins in Ukraine? Read More Here
Ukraine Is The West’s fight, Not China’s
Beijing will abide by its fundamental diplomatic principles of non-interference and respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity by not recognising the breakaway republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. Read More Here
Russia’s Lethal Identity Crisis
The current conflict over Ukraine is the latest installment in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s effort to reprise his country’s nineteenth-century imperial glory days. To ground imperial ambitions in old national myths is as dangerous in Russia’s case as it is everywhere else – and the main casualty could be Russia itself. Read More Here
Biden Enlists Asian Partners For Unprecedented Russia Sanctions Plans
The Biden administration is in talks with economic powerhouses in Asia to gain their support for severe sanctions and export control packages against Russia as tensions mount over Russian troops deploying to breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine. Read More Here
Fifty Years After President Nixon’s Visit To China
Few events in modern diplomatic history have astounded the world as much as Nixon’s visit to China. Only Egyptian president Anwar Sadat’s official visit to Israel in November 1977, which ended the diplomatic boycott of Israel that existed since its foundation in 1948, can be compared to it. Read More Here
China’s Triangulation Gambit
America’s rapprochement with China, 50 years ago this month, isolated the former Soviet Union at a time when its economic foundation was starting to crumble. Today, there can be little doubt that China has revived triangulation as a strategic gambit – or that this time America is the one being triangulated. Read More Here
China To Soldier On In Pakistan Despite Attacks
Despite facing looming security threats in Pakistan, China has taken a 15-year extension of its leasing rights on a gold and copper mine project in restive Balochistan province, an area that saw militant terrorist attacks on army bases in recent days. Read More Here
China’s Push To Advance Rural Revitalisation
Xi is promoting a new vision to tackle long-standing problems like the rural-urban divide, food security, and poverty. Read More Here
How Two Middle East Powerhouses Fell Out, Then Made Up
Perhaps the most stunning rapprochement has been between the UAE and Turkey — few saw that one coming. The two were pitted against each other in almost every regional conflict for the better part of the past decade and found themselves on opposite ends of the ideological spectrum. Read More Here
The Quixotic Quest To Tackle Global Cybercrime
The treaty process will get underway amid two competing perspectives. The first is a near universal view that something should be done to increase global cooperation on cybercrime and create a shared understanding of the issues…The second outlook is mistrust among states around the motivations for a global treaty, which colours the entire process. Read More Here
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