International

China’s signposts post-Ukraine

by M. K. Bhadrakumar*

(28 March 2022) Traditionally, the Chinese foreign minister holds press conferences on the margins of the sessions of the National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The press conference by State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi1 on Sunday marking the fifth session of the 13th NPC had added significance due to the confrontation between the US and Russia, an epochal event.

State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi Meets the Press

(28 March 2022) On 7 March 2022, a press conference was held via video link on the margins of the Fifth Session of the 13th National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People, during which State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi answered questions from Chinese and foreign media about China’s foreign policy and external relations.

"The policy of the USA has always been to prevent Germany and Russia from cooperating more closely"

Historical, political and economic contexts of the war in Ukraine

Interview with Jacques Baud*

(15 March 2022) Zeitgeschehen im Fokus: Mr Baud, you know the region where there is war now. What conclusions have you drawn from the last few days, and how could it have come to this?

"Unfortunately, NATO is not better than Putin!"

by Jürgen Todenhöfer, Germany*

(13 March 2022) Putin is waging war against Ukraine in violation of international law. There is no excuse for this. Nor does NATO's systematic encirclement of Russia over many years justify the killing of innocent Ukrainian civilians. War is always sh ...

“We need a European security architecture …”

(13 March 2022)

First peace through compromise,
then humanitarian assistance,
then reconciliation
– We only have this one planet!

The media on the “warpath”

Swiss mass media: a transatlantic transmission belt?

by Thomas Scherr

(13 March 2022) Even though today we are holding one’s breath in suspense by military operations and the question of the aggressor seems to be determined, the responsibility of the media for the tensions towards Russia, which they have actively built-up in the past months and years, must be broached. They have hunted down politics and thus serve as a kind of transmission belt of transatlantic military strategies.