Op-ed

For months, Russian President Vladimir Putin has waited and watched, hoping for a fracturing of the remarkable Washington consensus built by President Joe Biden on the need to do everything it takes to defend democracy in Ukraine. Now the first cracks may be appearing, – supposes Stephen Collinson, …

Paul Wang There is no question that over the past decade, the United States has driven the India-Pacific strategy, e.g. the Quad and AUKUS, to contain the peaceful rise of China. In addition, Washington has made all efforts to persuade the countries in the region to support its …

For the first time, Iran is fighting a major war on the European continent. Iranian military advisors, most likely members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, are on the ground in Ukraine — and possibly Belarus — helping Russia operate Iranian suicide drones targeting Ukrainian cities and civilian infrastructure. …

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, speaking at the Valdai International Discussion Club meeting on October 27th, gave a speech that described his ideology, and he took questions from the audience and answered further regarding a number of highly important issues. Everything that he said there is consistent with what …

Britain’s politico-economic fiasco of the past six weeks culminated in a tragicomic anticlimax. The 45-day Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned, as many had predicted before she even took high office last month. Rishi Sunak, the incumbent Prime Minister (Britain’s third in two months), had vociferously criticized Truss’ flamboyant …

The shrinking value of the currencies of most developing economies is driving up food and fuel prices in ways that could deepen the food and energy crises that many of them already face, according to the World Bank’s latest Commodity Markets Outlook report. In U.S. dollar terms, the …

What are instant payments and what are their benefits? Instant payments are a relatively new type of credit transfer responding to the needs of an increasingly digitalised society. They allow funds to be transferred in a matter of seconds, at any time, day or night, and any day …

Xi Jinping, the ‘Core’ leader has unveiled his new Politburo Standing Committeeinducting with four new loyalists, retiring Li Keqiang and Wang Yang, in his unprecedented third term. Elimination of four Politburo Standing Committee members, the highest decision-making body in China from the list of members of the new …

Antonio Graceffo  Tensions between Washington and Moscow have increased dramatically since the invasion of Ukraine, making a conflict between the United States and Russia more likely now than it has been in decades. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s ability to hold out against the Russian invasion for so many months raises …