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Xi of Arabia and the petroyuan drive

Xi Jinping has made an offer difficult for the Arabian Peninsula to ignore: China will be guaranteed buyers of your oil and gas, but we will pay in yuan. It would be so tempting to qualify Chinese President Xi Jinping landing in Riyadh a week ago, welcomed with royal pomp …

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Kosovas precedents

Kārtējo reizi saasinoties spriedzei etnisko serbu apdzīvotajos Kosovas ziemeļos, Kosovas vadība oficiāli paziņoja par pieteikuma dalībai Eiropas Savienībā (ES) nosūtīšanu uz Briseli. Paralēli Eiropas Parlaments (EP) un ES šobrīd prezidējošā valsts Čehija vienojās par atbalstu bezvīzu režīma ar Kosovu ieviešanai, kas gan iespējams tikai ar visu ES dalībvalstu piekrišanu. Svarīgi …

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Global Prospects: A German View

What [German Chancellor Olaf Scholz] fails or decides not to mention is the need to acknowledge the return of the nation-state as the key force capable of correcting those mistakes. Because a certain gang of Germans gave nationalism a bad name in the last century, one must not forget that …

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