August 25, 2022 Eurasia, South East Asia
The more US agricultural technology China acquires, especially through theft, in order to become dominant in the agritech field, the worse the US will fare when it comes to selling its own technology, whether to China or third countries. The specific goal is for China to be able to satisfy …
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August 25, 2022 Africa
Et si les BRICS devenaient les BRICSA ? Abdelmadjid Tebboune en est persuadé : l’Algérie qu’il préside répond en grande partie aux conditions pour adhérer à ce club d’économies émergentes comprenant le Brésil, la Russie, l’Inde, la Chine et l’Afrique du Sud. Qu’en est-il réellement ? Décryptage. « L’Algérie s’intéresse …
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August 25, 2022 Eurasia, Middle Orient
The Islamic State is threatening to kill employees in the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor if they continue to report to their jobs. Islamic State (IS) cells in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor in eastern Syria threatened employees and workers of …
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August 25, 2022 Eurasia, Middle Orient, Turkey
Turkish strikes on Syrian government troops and overt Kurdish attacks on targets inside Turkey signal that both sides are changing the rules of the game as Ankara eyes normalization with Damascus. Ankara’s reconciliation overtures to Damascus have been accompanied by growing Turkish attacks on Syrian Kurdish and government forces along …
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August 25, 2022 Eurasia, Middle Orient, Turkey
In his memoir, Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani shares that Turkey’s former President Turgut Ozal had once floated the idea of “annexing” Iraqi Kurdistan. As Turkey escalates its campaign against Kurdish militants in the north of Syria and Iraq and Kurdish politicians within its borders, Masoud Barzani, the preeminent leader …
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August 25, 2022 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
The mullahs appear convinced that once the Biden administration capitulates completely to their demands for reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, they will be able to step up their already significant efforts to eliminate Israel and export their Islamic Revolution to Arab and Islamic countries. Iran already occupies four Arab …
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August 25, 2022 Eurasia
Gezielt jene zu stützen, die bei den derzeitigen Preissteigerungen selbst nicht mehr stehen können, das ist auch für den Zusammenhalt unserer Gesellschaft entscheidend, kommentiert Ann-Kathrin Büüsker. Im Moment gebe es aber nur ein Flickwerk an Vorschlägen. Es werde Zeit, dass die Ampel das klärt. 2,4 Cent pro Kilowattstunde Gas: So …
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August 25, 2022 Eurasia, Kavkaz, Middle Orient
Prior to the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in early 2011, Damascus consciously sought to pursue a relatively balanced foreign policy toward most of its neighbors. Its challenges with Israel notwithstanding, Syria tried to maintain diversified and even-handed relations with Iran, Turkey, and the Arab world regionally and with …
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August 25, 2022 Afghanistan, Eurasia, South East Asia
The recent assassination of Al-Qaeda’s Ayman Al-Zawahiri is likely to create a number of ramifications. Al-Zawahiri was assassinated by two Hellfire R9-X missiles from an MQ9 Reaper drone, that had flown over or originated in a third country, in the heart of Kabul, which the US evacuated from in August …
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August 25, 2022 Eurasia, Middle Orient, Turkey
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that he is planning a new military offensive in northern Syria directed against the Kurds. If one authoritarian leader can defy world opinion, invade the territory of a sovereign state and incur only minor consequences, why not another? This may well have been …
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