The People’s Republic of China celebrated its 71 anniversary on October 1. In announcing the establishment of the new government in 1949, Mao Zedong, ‘China’s Atatürk’ stated the following during the 7th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in June 1945: THE FOOLISH OLD MAN WHO CARRIES MOUNTAINS There is an ancient Chinese tale called ‘The foolish old ...
The Head of the Pentagon Mark Esper recently named Russia and China as the main strategic rivals of the United States. The US Defense Secretary repeated this claim during his speech at the Rand Corporation. “Today, in this era of great power competition, the Department of Defense has prioritized China then Russia, as our top strategic competitors. These revisionist powers ...
BY ALİ RIZA TAŞDELEN Our world is experiencing the pain of the transition from a unipolar world to a multipolar world. The confrontation between the Atlantic and Eurasian forces has been heating up in the Eastern Mediterranean for the past year. It is not possible to consider the terrible explosion that took place in Beirut without taking into account the ...
Europe The aggravation of Turkish-Greek relations In August, Greece did everything possible to designate Turkey as an enemy in public discourse. On August 22, the Greek media reported that Greece had contacted the UN in connection with Turkey’s actions in the Mediterranean Sea, considering them a threat to the security of the entire region. On August 6, Greek Foreign Minister ...
China has surpassed the US in terms of its global positioning system, costing the US one of its major tools of world hegemony. GPS satellites, which are the key to theWashington’s worldwide military supremacy, are no longer unrivaled. The Global Positioning and Satellite System which has been developed by China is far superior to America’s. It is also free of ...
The Communist Party of China (CPC) held its first general assembly in Shanghai on July 1, 1921, illegally and under dangerous conditions. This date was later accepted as the foundation date of the CPC, which is now 99 years old. From its humble beginnings, the CPC now has 91 million members. It administers its members and leads the people with ...
Donald Trump’s threat to ban Tik Tok has made international headlines. Tik Tok is a Chinese social network that has been growing rapidly around the world, especially in 2020 during the early days of the pandemic. President Trump recently announced that he was giving the social media site’s Chinese parent company until September 15 to sell Tik Tok or it ...
An Indian poet well-known in Turkey once addressed his fellow Indians with these lines: “A dark winter arises in the horizon We’d get through it only if we nestle each other Do break those hard, heavy shells of yours Free yourselves from that burden. Those shells do not protect us but only harm. They condemn us to solitude. Yet we ...
Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka following the November victory of President Gotabay Rajapaksa. His brother Mahinda Rajapaksa’s position as Prime Minister has now been officially strengthened. The main struggle took place between Gotabaya’s Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Party (SLPP) and Sajith Premadasa’s Samagi Jana Balawegaya party. As a result, the People’s Freedom Alliance of Sri Lanka (SLPFA), dominated by ...
BY ALİ RIZA TAŞDELEN “It is unacceptable that people belonging to the Uyghur minority are imprisoned in concentration camps,” Jean Yves Le Drian said at the French National Assembly last Tuesday. Le Drian, the French Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs, parroted the lies of US imperialism as a member of parliament: “Concentration camps for Uyghurs, custody, disappearances, forced labor, ...