by Kishore Mahbubani,* Singapore
(13 July 2021) A major geopolitical contest has broken out between US and China. This is not surprising. Whenever the world’s number one emerging power (today, China), is about to overtake the world’s number one power (today, USA), a geopolitical struggle breaks out between the two, as I document in the book “Has China Won?”.
by Guy Mettan, independent journalist, Geneva
(24 June 2021) The cheers about the excellence of the Swiss welcome and preparation and the blah blah blah about the return of the United States to the international stage were no doubt justified, but they failed to show why the June 16 meeting between Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden was important. Let us attempt an analysis.
by M. K. Bhadrakumar*
(24 June 2021) On the diplomatic stage, there is nothing to beat Russian-American summits in sheer theatrics. When the leaders of the two most powerful nuclear powers on earth sit face to face, anything can happen.
by Wolfgang Effenberger*
(18 June 2021) An unscrupulous “elite” of NATO strategists, global financial and economic oligarchs is plunging Europe and Russia into war. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO has expanded more and more towards Russia, contrary to the agreements made. The culmination of this expansion was the 2014 coup in Ukraine, which was clearly engineered by the United States to the tune of five billion dollars.
by Diana Johnstone,* Paris
The German Green Party has a chance to join a ruling coalition in September’s election, after turning its back on its roots, to root for Washington.
by M. K. Bhadrakumar*
(18 June 2021) Ten months after the first meeting of the foreign ministers of China and the five Central Asian states, Beijing has followed through with a second session on May 11 at a gathering in Xi’an, China, hosted by Foreign Minister Wang Yi.