Mohamed Adhikari, University of Cape Town, South Africa The lament ‘We have been made into nothing’ was uttered in 1998 by Dawid Kruiper, the leader of the ≠Khomani San people who live on the fringe of the Kalahari Desert in the furthest reaches of South Africa’s Northern Cape province. The ≠Khomani San are a tiny remnant of the foraging communities ...
French President Emmanuel Macron has advocated in various statements at different times for the creation of an independent European pole that is distant from the US, opposed to Russia and cooperating with China. To understand and evaluate Macron’s statements, it is useful to put the pieces back together, which were displaced with the Ukraine War. First, let me underline the ...
Orçun Göktürk/ Beijing, China China has recently hosted a number of high-level American politicians and business figures. First, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen arrived in Guangzhou, the landmark city of China’s Reform and Opening Up era, in early April. She was followed by US Secretary of State Blinken and, most recently, Tesla CEO Elon Musk. US Treasury Secretary Yellen made ...