January, 2022

• 27 January

  Africa Seeks a More Equitable Partnership With China

  

  The eighth edition of the triennial Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, or FOCAC, took place this week in Dakar, Senegal, marking the first time the meeting was held in West Africa. The conference, which took place days after the release of a Chinese government white paper detailing a new era of …

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• 27 January

  China’s Hypersonic Missile Test Could Spur a Regional Arms Race

  

  In a move that many observers have likened to the opening scene of a techno-thriller or science fiction novel, China reportedly tested an advanced hypersonic missile in August. Technically known as a Gliding Fractional Orbital Bombardment System, or G-FOBS, the weapon is said to have missed its target by about …

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• 27 January

  The U.S. Should Compete With China and Russia—but Wisely

  

  As the Biden administration prepares to release its National Security Strategy and National Defense Strategy, observers are searching for clues on how those reviews will grapple with the framework of “great-power competition” that anchored the previous administration’s high-level policy documents. That framework has achieved substantial bipartisan traction in the intervening …

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• 27 January

  US Places 8,500 Troops On ‘Heightened Alert’, NATO Allies Bolster Eastern Europe

  

  NATO allies have put their forces on standby and are bolstering their presence in Eastern Europe amid concerns over a Russian military buildup near Ukraine, in what Moscow called a provocation. Outlining a series of recent announcements by individual members of current or upcoming deployments, NATO said on January 24 …

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• 27 January

  We Are Militarism’s Hostages

  

  Do our “Defense Departments” really defend us? Absolutely not! Their very title is a lie. The military-industrial complex sells itself by claiming to defend civilians. It justifies vast and crippling budgets by this claim; but it is a fraud. For the military-industrial complex, the only goal is money and power. …

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• 27 January

  Yemen’s Role In Iran’s Strategic Plan – Analysis

  

  Iran infiltrated the Yemeni arena by pursuing the same strategy it has found useful since the mid-1980s. Iran’s leadership is well aware that Yemen’s authorities, for several reasons, are unable to provide it with the amount of territory it seeks to seize in the country. This led Tehran to bypass …

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• 27 January

  Russian Markets Plunge As War Fears Mount

  

  The Russian stock market took a dive Monday as war fears triggered a massive sell-off, with tens of billions of dollars wiped from the value of some of the country’s leading businesses. As concerns mount that President Vladimir Putin is poised to order an invasion of neighboring Ukraine, the ruble …

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• 27 January

  Yemen Conflict: Blowback Of Obama’s Botched Syria Policy – OpEd

  

  After Arab Spring protests erupted in the Middle East in 2011, toppling longtime dictators of the Arab World, including Ben Ali in Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, Yemenis also gathered in the capital’s squares demanding removal of Ali Abdullah Saleh. Instead of conceding to protesters’ fervent demand of holding …

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• 27 January

  Bosnia And Herzegovina: From ‘Non-Paper’ To Crawling War – Analysis

  

  The political crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina is not a consequence of the decision[2] by the then High Representative in BiH (OHR) Valentin Inzko on amendments to the BiH Criminal Law criminalizing and sanctioning negation of genocide but a result of carefully and long planned activities primarily by the Serb …

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• 27 January

  Crisis As Opportunity: Towards A New European Security Architecture? – Analysis

  

  As the Russian military build-up on the Ukrainian border continues, talks were held throughout the last week directly between US and Russia, followed by the Russia-NATO and Russia-OSCE dialogue. Now, Moscow says, it is waiting for answers on its various demands regarding the security architecture in Europe, before deciding its …

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