Russia received about 30 peace initiatives for a settlement in Ukraine through official and unofficial channels, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on the sidelines of the second Russia-Africa summit, according to TASS News Agency report. “We are grateful to everyone. There were many such initiatives. It …
Read More »Russian-Algerian military ties
Chief of Staff of the Algerian People’s National Army General Said Chengriha has arrived in Russia to meet with the Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu. Minister of Defence of Russian Federation hold talks with Algerian People’s National Army Chief of Staff. The head of the Russian military department noted, …
Read More »Why globalism failed
What went wrong for the globalists? Not so long ago, the West was captivated by visions of the ‘End of History’. Francis Fukuyama, Thomas Friedman, Kenichi Ohmae and others envisaged the permanent triumph of a global neoliberal order. They foresaw the emergence of a system controlled by an …
Read More »The US-China Rivalry: Emergence of the Chip War in the Semiconductor Industry
Aishwarya Proma Over the past few months, a substantial exchange of discussions and negotiations has taken place between the United States and China about the issue of acquiring chip manufacturing and chip processing technology. Numerous instances of exchanges have resulted in the obstruction of access to rare earth …
Read More »Can America Counter the Next China Shock?
Christopher Vassall0 The experience of labor offshoring bears lessons for today’s capital offshoring. American shareholders have accumulated massive exposure to China’s market, leaving them vulnerable to the anti-market features of China’s politics. In the early 2000s, a “China Shock” roiled America’s manufacturing economy as companies offshored labor. The United …
Read More »How China Sees the World
Qin Qan As residents of the same world, we should and can listen to each other, narrow our gap in perceptions of the world, and explore a way to get along based on mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation. The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party …
Read More »Israel-Lebanon Border Dispute: Warmer But Not Hot
Alexander Langlois The fortunate reality is that neither actor desires a major escalation on their disputed border. In a turbulent year for both Israel and Lebanon, one would assume the two countries would work to avoid additional crises at all costs. Rather, Tel Aviv and Beirut are opting …
Read More »Why America Is Losing the Tech War with China
David Goldman It is simply too late to try to suppress China. The United States must either spend seriously on research and development, along with industrial policy, or it will lose the race for twenty-first-century technological supremacy. Western media, for the most part, has ignored a remarkable array …
Read More »Biden Should Not Extend Security Guarantees to Saudi Arabia
Gregg Priddy It simply does not make sense for the United States to make huge concessions to Saudi Arabia in the form of a formal security guarantee in response to concerns about China or the desire for Saudi-Israeli normalization. While President Joe Biden termed the idea of Saudi-Israel …
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