The End of US Dollar? More Countries Use National Currencies in Trade
As countries worldwide are adopting the concept of CBDC, the United States started considering the potential of digital currency.
Pact Between China and Solomon Islands Sparks New Regional Security Crisis
o liberate Asia Pacific from Japanese Imperialist Forces during the Second World War, the United States devised an “island hopping” strategy meant to secure as many islands as possible, with the aim of forcing the enemy back to its home soil.
Can NATO Bypass the Security Complex Mentality?
Read: China Beware, Russia-Ukraine War Unified EU and NATO As Never Before
The second decade after the Cold War
The second decade following the end of the Cold War was sealed by 9/11 when the United States’ “war on terror” and NATO’s activation of Article 5 for the first time in its history brought the alliance into Afghanistan.
Russian Arms to Southeast Asia Remains Outstanding
What makes Russia a suitable supplier of arms to certain Southeast Asian countries is that it offers cheaper equipment, barter as a payment alternative, and does not consider human rights records unlike Europe and the United States.
Can the Taliban Deal with their Handicaps?
Read: China-US Rivalries after the Afghan War
The Taliban cannot address the elephant in the room
Perhaps, the biggest handicap the Taliban faces is their inability to address the elephant in the room: the economic and humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Afghanistan.
American Political Opportunism and the Long Overdue Rohingya Genocide Determination
Read: An Axis of Evil: Why Russia and China Protect Myanmar’s Military RegimeWashington’s strategic calculation, namely that by not calling crimes against the Rohingya a genocide, the United States would in due course steer Myanmar’s most powerful stakeholder, the military, away from Washington’s number one imperial rival, China, also proved patently false.
Intelligence in the Russia-Ukraine War
According to news on social media, Russian cyber threat actors such as Conti, APT28, APT29, Turla, CyberBerkut, Sandworm, Gamaredon, and GhostWriter target not only Ukraine but also conduct cyberattacks against NATO, Europe, and the United States.
Power Politics and Moral Accountability
As long as Russia and the United States batter one another, China can enjoy some breathing space from American efforts to surround it with a new maritime coalition.
Ukraine: The Lesson Japanese Policy-Makers Won’t Learn
Japan was quick to adopt sanctions in line with the United States, and has stressed at every turn that it stands shoulder to shoulder with its international partners in the West.
Russia’s War in Ukraine and the Global Struggle for Power
invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008, the unlawful withdrawal of the United States from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018, and Israel's bombing of Gaza, can be analyzed as decisive in shaping Putin's Ukraine policy.
Stability, Resilience and Chaos in the New World Order
lobal security has the extraordinary characteristic that states, irrelevant of their strength, do not respond according to their capacity.
How the Ukraine War Will Give China More Leverage
China, for its part, has begun to reposition itself in relation to the United States.
How Will the Russia-Ukraine War Affect the Balkans?
Thus, unless the EU and the United States issue a de facto ultimatum to Belgrade, Serbia is unlikely to impose sanctions on Russia until after the elections.
The Montreux Convention and the Russia-Ukraine War
The first exception states that warships can pass in the case of the rights and obligations of Turkey, or of any of the other High Contracting Parties members of the League of Nations (now the UN), arising from the “Covenant of the League of Nations” (now the Charter of the United Nations).
The GCC States’ Russian Dilemma
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) abstained from the UN Security Council vote on February 26 condemning Russia and asking Moscow to withdraw its troops.
Dependent on Russian Gas: Europe Must Reconsider Its Energy Security
that does not facilitate the construction of pipelines, the United States, the world's number one oil and gas producer, is forced to buy both oil and gas from its ultimate rival, Russia.
Latin America: A New Sphere of Russian Influence?
he world is witnessing a dramatic revival of the 20th-century bipolar geopolitical order featuring the Soviet Union, today’s Russia, on the one side, and the United States on the other.
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: What China Thinks
Beijing has utilized its Confucius Institutes to promote the notion that China is a peaceful power, mobilized the United Front Work Department (UFWD) to encourage the Chinese diaspora to identify politically with the PRC and participate in espionage operations, and financed corrupt diplomats and foreign politicians to promote pro-Beijing policies.
Russia-Ukraine War: Why India, Israel, and Pakistan Have Chosen Silence
India and the Invasion of Ukraine
India maintains close ties with Russia and the United States.
Russian Invasion of Ukraine from an International Law Perspective
Going even further, Russia claims that the United States and Western European countries have been trying to create a nuclear Ukraine on its border.
