People’s health should not be a political battleground for governments: those in charge should not seek economic or political gain if it puts the health of society at risk. It makes even less sense to reject a vaccine that can prevent new infections and save lives in the context of the worst pandemic of the century– sadly, however, many world ...
The Turkish, Pakistani and Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers met in Islamabad on January 13, 2021. After the second summit of the trilateral cooperation platform, Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlut Cavusoglu, Pakistani Minister of Foreign Affairs Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Azerbaijani Minister of Foreign Affairs Ceyhun Bayramov signed a declaration.As the storming of the US capital and other recent developments show, ...
The real winter, with its freezing cold weather, has finally come. Together with the freezing winter, the protests in Belarus have also frozen in place. The protests of those who do not recognize the official results of the August presidential elections still continue, but unlike the mass protests in winter when weekly protests were attended by tens of thousands of ...
On January 20, Joe Biden began serving as president of the United States. His foreign policy team is virtually complete, mostly made up of former officials from Barack Obama’s administration with whom Biden has worked in the past. However, Biden’s foreign policy will not be a simple continuation of Obama’s. The international and domestic political situation have changed. The Neocons ...
By Prof. Dr. Mehmet Seyfettin EROL The US is witnessing one of the most fragile periods in its short history. It would not be wrong to say that the country is faced with its third major crisis after the Civil War and the Vietnam War– there is a very thin line between “streets” and “fronts”. Although this determination may seem ...
The highly influential US Think Tank Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has published its Preventive Priorities Survey 2021. The report foresees US intervention against Eurasia both in direct military conflict between Washington and Eurasian countries as well as within inner-Eurasian conflicts. The strengthening Eurasian collective defense and conflict solving mechanisms as well as further deepening Eurasian economic integration becomes vital ...
The United States had entered the World War I with the pressures and demands of the Great Britain, on 6th April 1917 one month after the government change in Russia on March 3rd 1917. Russia withdrew from the war. The German advance in Europe was brought to a halt by the United States’ involvement in the war. At this point, ...
Washington under siege Unprecedented security measures are being taken in the US capital on the eve of Joe Biden’s inauguration. The ceremony is due to take place on January 20. After Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the US Capitol on January 6 when members of the US Congress were going to approve the results of the presidential election, heightened security measures ...
On January 20, 2021, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as President of the United States. Along with him, a new team will come to the White House, mostly composed of officials from Barack Obama’s administration. UWI has already written about the major figures in the future Joe Biden administration: Antony Blinken – the future state secretary, Jake Sullivan – the ...
By Orçun Göktürk Beijing (University of International Business and Economics) US Health Secretary Alex Azar visited Taiwan in August last year. This was the highest diplomatic visit of a member of the US government to Taiwan in 40 years. While everyone expected Beijing to react strongly, more than that happened. Beijing first deployed its warplanes around the island of Taiwan, ...
The Comprehensive Investment Agreement (CAI) between the European Union and the People’s Republic of China that was announced at the end of 2020 keeps on fuelling international discussions. “FOR CHINA MOST IMPORTANT STEP SINCE JOINING THE WTO” Sourabh Gupta, a senior fellow at the Institute for China-America Studies in Washington, described the agreement as a milestone. Gupta claims that “for ...
`Do you remember Google’s slogan “Don’t be evil”? Well, Google is evil. It is one of the biggest donors to Washington’s pay-to-play, feckless political class.` Mitchell B. Feierstein Turkish authorities recently took another step against the new digital dictatorship of the media giants. After WhatsApp updated its privacy policy, Turkish authorities launched an investigation into Facebook and WhatsApp, and President ...