... changes taking place in the world will be rapid and dramatic - revisionism by its nature does not imply sudden movements. We see how cautious Russia and the United States are about the likelihood of an escalation of their differences in Eastern Europe. China and the United States are also showing serious restraint and skilfully resolve their differences without bringing them into direct conflict. The fact that thousands of human lives become the price for general revisionism is a huge tragedy. But in conditions when a major conflict is impossible and irrational, and the contradictions between many powers aimed at revising the international order are great, it ...
... contrary, U.S. Trump Administration recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital by moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and even officially recognized Israel’s annexation of the territories as legal in 2019.
Where there is occupation, there ... ... some Arab countries’ accepting of the Abraham Process are both the manifestation of above-mentioned trends.
However, just as China frequently states on the official level, the Palestine issue remains at the core of Middle East agendas, and is the root ...
... should close their ranks even more. Such reasoning is constructed for some alternative reality as it suffers from a lack of causality. More so, it is absolutely unclear why the formats of cooperation between “liberal democracies” are so much better ... ... socio-economic standpoint rather than from the political perspective. All actors, despite the current difficulties in Japan-China and Russia-Japan relations, stick to the established ties in different areas. Due to the specifics of its political regime ...
... its financial, economic, and political advantages
The US has always been seeking Roman empire-style global hegemony, but in fact it has been losing its financial, economic, and political advantages, said Kirill Babaev, director of the Institute of China and Modern Asia at the Russian Academy of Sciences, at an academic forum on Thursday gathering scholars from China, Russia and the US at the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China.
Babaev told the Global Times that ...
... 1980s none of the parties to the global conflict had the ability to conduct active offensive operations and, in fact, both the USA and Europe, as well as the USSR became powers with a permanent status, concerned with maintaining their position in the world ... ... their association in order to rank among the leading participants in international life, equal in strength to the United States, China or Russia. In fact, it was Europe, its politicians and observers, that made the greatest contribution to the expansion of ...
... order, then there might be fewer risks for it. The Western allies could concentrate all their power on countering Moscow. But the spread of problems in other directions seriously complicates things. Resources have to be wasted not only on containing China, but also on putting out fires where they supposedly shouldn’t have broken out. With a high probability, Washington will be able to provide Israel with significant military and diplomatic assistance, limiting the next outbreak of conflict. But ...
... Department of Commerce — it was forbidden to supply certain goods in the field of electronics, including manufactured outside the USA using American technology. In addition, a number of Chinese companies have been placed on the Military End User List (MEU-List).... ... Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), etc. In addition, members of Congress periodically propose sanctions bills against China in connection with a variety of reasons, starting from the already familiar topics of human rights and ending with sanctions ...
The growing US-Japanese-South Korean military cooperation inevitably leads to stronger China-Russia-North Korea ties
The Russian-North Korean negotiations this month have provoked a lot of hype, particularly in the West. It is assumed by the West that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's trip might indicate a profound change in Moscow's ...
... Brief #47 / 2023
The Middle East has been clearly showing signs that is it changing. It would not be an overstatement to say that a lot of what is happening now would have been unthinkable just a couple of years ago.
The greatest of these changes is the China-mediated rapprochement between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Given that these countries are regional “centers of power”, their new and improved relations may help reduce regional tensions in certain countries ...
Like Russia, India is likely to resist the evolution of the international system towards a rigid U.S.-China bipolarity since such an evolution would inevitably deprive New Delhi of the freedom of manoeuvring that it enjoys now
Recently there have been many speculations about the likely future of India-US relations and their impact on the Indian posture ...
