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China’s Southern Strategy

Beijing Is Using the Global South to Constrain America For the past decade, Chinese President Xi Jinping has endeavored to help China attain what it considers to be its rightful position at the center of the world stage. To do this, Xi—along with the rest of China’s leadership—is attempting to …

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The New Energy Order

How Governments Will Transform Energy Markets In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the world appears to be at an inflection point. Business leaders have declared the acceleration of deglobalization and sounded the alarm about a new period of stagflation. Academics have decried the return of conquest and hailed …

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What If Ukraine Wins?

Victory in the War Would Not End the Conflict With Russia In recent days, many Western observers of the war in Ukraine have begun to worry that the tide is turning in Russia’s favor. Massive artillery fire is yielding incremental Russian gains in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, and Russia is …

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Turkey’s Erdogan tells Greece not to arm demilitarised islands

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday Greece should stop arming islands in the Aegean Sea that have a demilitarised status and abide by international agreements, in comments likely to further fuel long-running tensions between the neighbours. The NATO allies have long been at odds over issues such as maritime …

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La guerre d’Ukraine divise dangereusement les Balkans

Résumé L’avion du chef de la diplomatie russe Sergei Lavrov a dû rebrousser chemin alors qu’il était en route vers la Serbie, après l’interdiction de survol de trois pays de l’Otan. Cet incident va relancer la lutte d’influence entre Russes et Occidentaux dans cette région fragile. En savoir plus La …

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A háború első áldozata az igazság

A címbéli bölcsesség Aiszkhülosz görög tragédiaírótól, az időszámítás előtti V. századból származik, ám talán sosem volt ennyire igaz, mint most, az orosz–ukrán háború idején. Washington, Brüsszel, Berlin és London politikusait hallgatva elfog a kétkedés, hogy keresik-e még az igazságot, a harcokat kiváltó okokat, vagy csak korunk legsúlyosabb betegségének, a politikai …

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Ukrayna krizi ve ABD merkezli dünyanın sonu!

ABD, kural temelli düzen derken uluslararası hukuku kastetmiyor. Washington kendi koyduğu, küresel kapitalist sistemin işleyişine dair normlara uyulmasını istiyor. Çin ve Rusya bu normlara uymuyor. Temelde sorun küresel artı değerden kapitalist merkezlerin daha fazla pay alma çabaları. Küresel rantın aslan payını şimdiye kadar alan ABD, Çin’in yükselişi karşısında konumunu korumaya …

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Vietnam Modernizes Its Military With a Wary Eye on China

Ukraine’s successes in resisting and even turning back an invasion by a numerically superior Russian force has raised expectations in East Asia that smaller nations in the region could conceivably fend off an attack from a large military like China’s. Taiwan, of course, has long struggled with executing such a …

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Turkey Is Playing With Fire in Syria—Again

While the war in Syria has receded from the international spotlight, residents in the country’s northeast are bracing for a new wave of armed conflict. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has for months threatened to launch a military invasion of the region to push back Syrian Kurdish fighters and create …

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Syria’s ‘Cold’ Civil War Could Easily Get Hot Again

Back in June 2011, when news began to filter out from Syria of the first signs of armed resistance against the Baathist regime of President Bashar al-Assad, few could have predicted the level of disruption to the global order that the conflict in Syria would go on to produce. After …

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