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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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Great Britain: Multiculturalism and Islam Turn It Upside-Down

This year, Leicester’s famous multiculturalism, so praised by the establishment, exploded. Knife attacks, stone- and bottle-throwing, cars torched, religious symbols under siege, dozens wounded, including policemen…. Then the hunt for Hindus began in Britain’s streets. “Leicester to be first city where white people are minority,” announced The Independent in 2007. …

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America’s New Sanctions Strategy

How Washington Can Stop the Russian War Machine and Strengthen the International Economic Order On the morning of Sunday, February 27, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sat huddled in a secure room with a group of other senior Treasury officials—including me—to discuss a set of extraordinary economic and financial measures …

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Libia. El país desmembrado

Libia fue durante décadas un actor africano y árabe a tener en cuenta. Sus recursos y su ubicación, acompañado por un régimen dictatorial ambicioso, forjaron en el país una conciencia nacional capaz de contrarrestar el orden tribal enraizado en las tres regiones históricas del Estado norafricano. Bajo la figura de Muanmar el …

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Are Russia and Iran expanding military ties?

The US says the two allies are giving each other ‘unprecedented support’ in Ukraine. Iran is now Russia’s biggest military backer. That’s the warning from the US National Security Council. John Kirby, the national security spokesman, says the Ukraine war is pulling the two countries into what he calls a …

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