Eurasia

The fall of Kabul in August 2021 prompted discussions about the end of Western influence in the country and an opportunity for China and Russia to dig their heels in the ‘graveyard of empires’. In the immediate aftermath, in contrast with Afghanistan’s other neighbours, Russia didn’t close its embassy in …

U.S. and partners should unify their support for Moldovans’ aim to join the European Union. At a sensitive edge of Russia’s war on Ukraine, Moscow is sustaining a campaign to regain control in Moldova, the small, ex-Soviet republic landlocked between Ukraine and Romania. Russia has maneuvered for years to scuttle …

An eighth coup around the Sahel shows we need better responses to the world’s most unstable region. This morning’s coup d’etat in Niger only deepens the pattern of instability across Africa’s Sahel and damages what has been a rare process of fairly steady democracy building in the region. Niger’s democratically …

As the clock ticks down on the repatriation of Islamic State (IS) foreign fighters from Syria, a recent development has added a new sense of urgency to the situation. On June 11, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), the de facto authority in northeast Syria, announced its …

A New World Order Dominated by China, Russia and the Iranian Regime, with North Korea Heading Up the Rear [T]he weak and possibly compromised administration of U.S. President Joe Biden appears to have enabled and empowered the autocrats of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, all of whom seem to …

Interventionists always blame inflation on everything and anything except the only thing that makes aggregate prices rise: Issuing more units of currency than the real demand. Seller inflation is the same excuse and fallacy as cost-push inflation. A way to confuse citizens and assign causation to something that cannot make …

With China working on its dual-carbon goals and under the current high temperature, virtual power plants have been consistently dominating the country’s new energy sector since the beginning of this year. In fact, in 2022, the 14th Five-Year Plan for Modern Energy System proposed to promote flexible resources such as …

For two consecutive years, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) summits welcomed the leaders of the Indo-Pacific 4 (IP4) countries—Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand—who are considered NATO’s “partners across the globe”. The Russia-Ukraine conflict has emboldened cooperation both within NATO and its 31 members, but also with the IP4 …

Despite the many economic challenges people are facing today, including stubbornly high inflation and 401ks that are still reeling from the worst stock market drop since 2008 , many contend that we’re witnessing the triumph of “Bidenomics.” The White House has been touting statistics showing 13.2 million jobs have been …

Russia’s isolation, China’s assertiveness and a surge of interest in joining BRICS have pushed calls for a BRICS currency. Brazilian President Lula da Silva attacked the global economic order at last month’s international financing summit in Paris, criticising the dominance of the United States (US) dollar as the currency for …