Eurasia

China is exploring the possibility of building its first military base on the Atlantic ocean, according to classified intelligence reports viewed by the Wall Street Journal. The proposed host for the military base is Equatorial Guinea, a small central African country of approximately 1.4 million people. Politically, Equatorial Guinea is …

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping met Wednesday via video conference, stressing their strong alliance amid both countries’ deteriorating relations with the west. “A new model of cooperation has been formed between our countries, based, among other things, on such principles as non-interference in internal affairs, …

We ought not to consider The Balkans a region completely immune from potential crises and conflicts. The symptoms of this assumption are clearly visible in the current political situation in Bosnia, which is risking to enter into a new conflict with unforeseeable consequences, even 25 years after the Dayton Peace …

The administration of President Joseph Biden began in early 2021 amid daunting domestic challenges and an evolving era of Great Power competition (GPC). This era—emerging since 2008, evident since 2014, and on full display since 2017—features a three-state GPC where the United States, China, and Russia joust for international status …

I’m not worried at this point about a deflationary spiral, but I see what, to my view, is a plausible scenario where the CPI actually goes negative in the next twelve months. I go through the categories and my predictions component by component below, but there are four main items …

Pomysł angażowania kapitału politycznego Polski do walki o likwidację czy jakieś fundamentalne zmiany w unijnym systemie handlu emisjami jest nietrafiony z kilku powodów. Propozycja Solidarnej Polski, by zlikwidować unijny system handlu emisjami (ETS), jest niemądra i nierealistyczna. Jeśli premier ją podejmie i będzie przekonywał europejskich partnerów do znaczących zmian w …

Gaspriset rusar igen efter att den nya tyska regeringen har uttalat sig om den rysk-tyska gasledningen Nordstream 2. Ansökan uppfyller inte kraven för godkännande, heter det. Men den egentliga orsaken är troligen en annan: Så länge Ryssland hotar med en ny invasion av Ukraina kan inte Tyskland ge grönt ljus …

Incident represents ‘serious violation’ of German law and sovereignty, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said. Germany expelled two Russian diplomats Wednesday after a Berlin court ruled a man had murdered a Chechen dissident on behalf of the Moscow government in what the presiding judge declared was an act of “state terrorism.” …

The U.S. Military Should Pull Back but Not Pull Out Since declaring his candidacy for president, Joe Biden, like his two Oval Office predecessors, has made it clear that he wants to rebalance the United States’ military presence in the Middle East. During the 2020 campaign, Biden pledged to “end …

The United States is getting serious about the threat of war with China. The U.S. Department of Defense has labeled China its primary adversary, civilian leaders have directed the military to develop credible plans to defend Taiwan, and President Joe Biden has strongly implied that the United States would not …