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Russia’s Changing Relationship with India: Arms Talk

Security
Read: The Most Dangerous Place in the World and Its Ongoing Border DisputesWith Russia’s military and diplomatic efforts focused more on Europe, where it sees itself locked in a struggle to coerce and cajole former Soviet states into resisting NATO and European Union expansionism, Moscow has signaled that it’s willing to be a “hostage to China’s behavior,” according to Rumer, who says China’s policy in Asia is now essentially Russia’s policy, with Putin not allowing anyone or anything to put distance between himself and Chinese Communist Party Chairman Xi Jinping.

Two-State Solution for Cyprus Difficult, But Not Impossible

Opinion
Read: US Lifts Arms Embargo on Cyprus, But Only Selling SmokeWith its strategy in North Africa in tatters and its bases in Lebanon exposed to the dangers of what some may say is already a failed state, France is desperate to consolidate its standing in the region, and is doing so by riding the wave of European solidarity with Greece and the Greek Cypriots.

Pushing the Liberalist Agenda to its Limits: The Problem of Labels

World
These labels do not manifest the ‘Who am I?’, but instead emphasize ‘What am I sensitive about?’ (Interestingly, and quite tellingly, as an indication of how labels are also relative, in Western and Central Europe this aspect of the liberalist agenda that exalts the individual is embraced by right-wing economic liberals and heavily criticized by left-wing radicals, whereas in the US it is resonant with what is seen as the progressive left.

China-Iran Treaty: Hydrocarbons Bring the Old Friends Closer

World
This multi-billion-dollar series of infrastructural project straddling Eurasia and facilitating connectivity between China and inner Asia, West Asia and continental Europe, is directly dependent on the compliance and partnership of geopolitically linchpin countries such as Iran whose territories and infrastructure will create the pathways between China and Europe.