By Mehmet Enes Beşer The supremacy of Apple in the international market is sustained by a paradox it cannot sustain any longer. On one hand, its branding and positioning are centered on seductive design, excellent user experience, and Silicon Valley innovation principles. Underneath, however, lurks a maze of supply chains, their core located in China’s manufacturing regions. The “Designed in ...
By Orçun Göktürk, from Beijing / China Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump have met for the third time in a year. The decision to take a “short pause” in the trade war, which began on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Busan, South Korea, last October, was reinforced by Trump’s visit to Beijing in May. ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer The growing geopolitical tensions and fragmentation of the regional order pose serious challenges for Southeast Asia. The Indo-Pacific geopolitical dynamics – fueled by strategic rivalry between the United States and China, competing supply chains, and contradictory security alliances – make stability in East Asia more uncertain than it was since the end of the Cold War. ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer Throughout ASEAN’s existence, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations has always been a cornerstone in terms of regional stability and development in Southeast Asia. With the advent of new global political developments, the ability of ASEAN to adapt and retain its centrality is put to the test. During its Chairmanship in 2025, ASEAN faces various problems ...
By Orçun Göktürk, from Beijing / China NATO’s 2026 annual summit concluded in Ankara on July 7–8. Diverging from its predecessors, the summit’s final declaration did not directly target China. Beginning with the 2019 London Declaration and continuing through the 2021 Brussels, 2022 Madrid, and 2023 Vilnius summits, NATO had consistently targeted China, defining it as the alliance’s foremost “systemic ...
From its peak of economic and military power in the Med in 200 BC, Rome took several centuries to decline and fall. It won’t be so long in the modern capitalist world. By Michael Roberts On the first day of talks during US President Donald Trump’s recent state visit to China, his host China’s Xi Jinping invoked the so-called “Thucydides trap” ...
Posted by by United World International 15 Min Read May 29, 2026 By Dr. Ali Alsaç Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing on May 13–15, 2026, should be read not merely as a diplomatic contact, but as a stage showcasing the 21st century’s technological balance of power. It is no coincidence that Trump was accompanied by top-level representatives from the technology, ...
The fairytale of ‘Free Trade’ By Orçun Göktürk, from Beijing / China A new bill submitted to Congress in the US clearly demonstrates the stage Washington’s containment strategy against China in the Pacific has reached. According to the proposal, the US will negotiate new free trade agreements with Pacific Island countries; it will eliminate tariffs on certain products and deepen ...
On the summit to be celebrated October 31st – November 1, it is about “America First” versus Multipolarity. By Orçun Göktürk, from Beijing / China With Donald Trump’s return to the global stage, the U.S. foreign policy strategy has shifted away from its long-proclaimed mission of defending so-called “freedom and democracy” toward a period entirely oriented around American interests -a ...
Why Russian Vice-president Medvedev is right when saying that Trump lives in an “alternate reality”. By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein Dedicated to the Heroic Guerrilla, Commander Ernesto Che Guevara, on the 58th anniversary of his passing into immortality After reading a recent article by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, I was left thinking about a phrase he said: “Trump has once ...