Eurasia

La Chine appelle à retrouver les auteurs du sabotage des gazoducs Nord Stream I et Nord Stream II, sinon ils pourraient croire à leur propre impunité et décider d’entreprendre de nouvelles actions. « Tout sabotage délibéré d’une infrastructure transfrontalière est un acte malveillant. Autoriser une enquête internationale sur le sabotage …

S’il est aujourd’hui peu intéressant de se focaliser sur les prétendus spécialistes occidentaux qui il y a encore récemment espéraient voir l’économie de la Russie à genoux et aujourd’hui se retrouvent à admettre « le miracle économique russe », il est au contraire très important d’entendre l’opinion d’experts issus de …

What none of the news reports, editorials, public letters by prominent figures or statements by officials have revealed is that the Biden administration is funding the group behind the protests. “No one is asking the organizers who finances their activities. Someone is paying tens of millions of shekels to rent …

The West’s historical anxieties have made it impossible to come to terms with the war’s reality. On the first day of Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner met with then-Ukrainian ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk. As Melnyk later recounted, Lindner didn’t simply decline to supply Ukraine …

China can make friends or break legs. It can’t do both. In the span of a decade, China has emerged as the developing world’s bank of choice, pouring hundreds of billions of dollars in loans into global infrastructure projects as part of its sprawling Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). But …

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden delivered dueling speeches on Tuesday, each offering different visions of Russia’s war in Ukraine and world events more generally. The main news from Putin’s sometimes rambling two-hour speech came toward the end: the suspension of New START, the last remaining nuclear …

“The United States will provide Ukraine with a new $500 million infusion of aid to help the government in Kyiv continue paying salaries, pensions and providing services, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Thursday. Yellen detailed the assistance following her meeting Wednesday with Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and Finance Minister …

When news first emerged over explosions endured by the Nord Stream pipelines, known collectively as Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2, an army of guessers was mobilised. The accusation that Russia had done it seemed counterintuitive, given that the Russian state company Gazprom is a majority shareholder of Nord …

With the Ukraine war now reaching its one-year mark on February 24, the Russians have not achieved a military victory but neither has the West achieved its goals on the economic front. When Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States and its European allies vowed to impose crippling sanctions that would …

In an address to the Federal Assembly on February 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia would suspend its participation in the 2011 New START nuclear arms controls treaty. The treaty, which provided for a 50 percent reduction of the number of strategic nuclear missile launchers and a bilateral …