Eurasia Press & News

Chinese President Xi Jinping has reportedly signed a legal order that operationalizes a trial of “military operations” beyond Chinese borders that took effect last June 15. Xi signed this order amid heightened tensions with Taiwan as it continues its coercive and aggressive territorial claims in the region. Previously, China claimed …

Chinese and Russian warships cruised off the coast of Japan last week, coinciding with the end of a major U.S. military exercise involving two aircraft carriers 2,000 miles away. Valiant Shield, a 12-day naval exercise in the eastern Philippine Sea near Guam, ended Friday with the sinking of a decommissioned …

An unidentified airman has been arrested in connection with an attack using explosives in April on a small U.S. military base in Syria that wounded four American service members, Air Force officials said Tuesday. “As part of an ongoing investigation, on June 16, an airman was taken into custody stateside …

Kremlin threats of retaliation against NATO ally Lithuania for instituting a transit ban over the weekend that affects Russia’s exclave of Kaliningrad could have serious implications for several hundred U.S. soldiers positioned in nearby northeastern Poland. For years, security analysts have feared that in the event of a crisis with …

Overestimated and overconfident, Russia’s armed forces floundered in the face of fierce resistance after invading Ukraine on Feb. 24. They retreated from Kyiv and other cities they had expected to take within a few days. Some of Ukraine’s supporters then made the opposite error of triumphalism — or so it …

The world isn’t flat, it’s all too round…. That’s why Islam is once again at war with Europe, Russia is invading Ukraine, China is relaunching its empire, and the ‘flatland’ is experiencing a dimensional shift. Globalization advocates had just recreated Marxist central planning with a somewhat more flexible global model …

“Russia relies on a series of asymmetric (and often extralegal) measures for influence—mercenaries, arms-for-resource deals, opaque contracts, election interference, and disinformation.” — Joseph Siegle, Director of Research at the Brookings Institution’s Africa Center for Strategic Studies, February 2, 2022. Although trade between Russia and African countries has reportedly doubled since …

W 2008 r. NATO nie przyznało Ukrainie i Gruzji Planu Działań na rzecz Członkostwa w NATO (tzw. MAP – Membership Action Plan). Stało się to m.in. w wyniku osobistej perswazji Władimira Putina podczas szczytu Sojuszu w Bukareszcie. Kreml odczytał odmowę NATO jako słabość Zachodu i jeszcze w tym samym roku …

Minden kétséget kizáróan történelmet ír az Európai Unió: Ukrajna tagjelöltsége kérdésében rendkívüli jelentőségű döntést hozott. Hogy milyen történelmet írunk épp, az viszont a jövő zenéje. Ebben a kérdésben ugyanis nem lehet egyszerre szépnek és okosnak is lenni, az uniós döntéshozók pedig egyelőre a szépet választották. A rendkívüli helyzet kétségtelenül rendkívüli …

Les Français ont sanctionné dimanche le chef de l’Etat, qui perd sa majorité absolue à l’Assemblée et devra composer avec nombre de députés Nupes et un important groupe d’extrême droite. Une claque due aussi à son rapport très vertical au pouvoir. La gifle. Les Français, en tout cas ceux qui …