Eurasia

A number of defence analysts are convinced that the United States of America, supported by Britain and Australia, is goading China to go to war over Taiwan. They point to constant statements by officials from the three countries pledging to come to Taiwan’s defence if it is attacked by China …

“This war has to end,” President Biden intoned in his first major foreign policy address at the State Department in early February 2021. He wasn’t talking about the war in Afghanistan. Rather it was the bloody, mostly one-sided, six-year battering led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates against …

At the G7 Summit last June, Joe Biden, Boris Johnson and Scott Morrison, representing the U.S., United Kingdom and Australia respectively, met in private talks. The subject was how to contain China and its influence. In September these leaders announced the AUKUS Alliance, a defence agreement between the countries. Australian …

At home in Helsinki, Ilona Taimela scrolls through hundreds of WhatsApp chats with her former pupils — pictures of animals, maths sums and simple sentences in English and Finnish. Last year, the teacher gave lessons to Finnish children imprisoned about 3,000 kilometres away in Syria’s Al Hol displacement camp — …

La hausse des prix repart de façon très nette aux Etats-Unis, mais aussi en Europe. Un phénomène qui, s’il s’inscrit dans la durée, pourrait provoquer une érosion du pouvoir d’achat, et risquerait de casser la croissance. Pendant des années, la plupart des économies avancées se sont lamentées sur la disparition …

Ostatnie badania CBOS-u zdają się potwierdzać trzy wielkie teorie sekularyzacji: teorię bogactwa (religijność bardziej spada w wielkich miastach), teorię wiedzy (religijność bardziej spada u ludzi z wyższym wykształceniem) oraz teorię braku autorytetu (religijność najbardziej spada u młodych, których ukształtowała kultura egocentryzmu). Przyjrzyjmy się wymienionym teoriom. Zanim jednak to uczynimy, zwróćmy …

Polska młodzież masowo porzuciła praktyki religijne – z blisko 70 proc. praktykujących w 1992 r. zostało dziś 23 proc. Od Kościoła odsuwają się też starsi. Gwoździem do trumny, prócz pazerności i upolitycznienia Kościoła, jest seria pedofilskich skandali. To kolejny dzwonek alarmowy dla Kościoła. Od dawna było wiadomo, że traci młodych. …

The White House is reviewing options to deter a feared Russian invasion of Ukraine, including providing more military aid to Kyiv and threatening sanctions, to dissuade Russian President Vladimir Putin from escalating the simmering conflict into a full-blown transatlantic crisis. The deliberations come as President Biden and his aides prepare …

INFLATION IN THE U.S. ECONOMY IS CLEARLY A PROBLEM. There, I said it in all caps so that everyone can see I recognize it as a problem. The question is how big a problem. After all, we have lots of problems, millions of children in poverty, a huge homeless population, …

Eni and Snam have entered into an agreement for the sale by Eni to Snam of a 49.9% stake (directly and indirectly owned) in certain companies operating two groups of international gas pipelines connecting Algeria to Italy. In particular, the perimeter of the transaction includes the onshore gas pipelines running …