In 2023, the People’s Republic of China purchased 91% of the oil produced by Iran. Anxious with that, US President Biden is working on passing a law to impose sanctions on China for its oil purchases from Iran. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Iran has transformed into a construction site. What we see is an extraordinary development in the economy. In ...
By Orçun Göktürk/ Beijing, China Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Europe for the first time in 5 years. Xi’s visit to France, Serbia and Hungary from May 5 to 10 occurred in the shadow of the Ukraine war. Coming on the heels of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit to China last month, the visit is seen as a defining moment ...
By Jörg Kronauer Is the debate about nuclear armament in the EU moving into the next round? There are some indications that this is the case. Last week, Poland’s President Andrzej Duda declared that his country was prepared to station US nuclear weapons on its territory. On Friday evening, his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron said that France was offering to ...
Konstantin Kurylev, is a doctor of history, head of the Department of Theory and History of International Relations at the Patrice Lumumba Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia and director of the Centre for the Study of Post-Soviet Countries. Kurylev has given an expert commentary to the United World International. The issue in question: The Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braže’s statement ...
Ukraine has refused to conclude peace talks in Istanbul in April 2022 due to a number of Russian demands. This was reported by the German newspaper Die Welt. The draft treaty shows that the countries agreed on the conditions for ending the conflict. Only a few points remained unresolved, which were to be personally discussed by Presidents Vladimir Putin and ...
By Reinhard Lauterbach At first glance, 61 billion US dollars is a lot of money. It is one and a half times as much as the USA has spent on military support for Ukraine in the past two years: 44 billion. In this respect, it is logical that 23 billion of the 61 billion should in fact be used to ...
By Yiğit Saner Days before the terrorist attack in Moscow, France allegedly sent two thousand troops to Ukraine, bringing tensions to a peak. According to the claim, a division has allegedly landed south of Kyiv. Brussels, which Zelenskyy insulted for not sending more aid, will fund Kyiv with frozen Russian assets. Minutes after Friday’s terrorist attack in the Russian capital ...
Political forces and media in Europe are pretending an immediate Russian attack. They provide according statements and reports, thus trying to convince their public opinion to a warmongering foreign policy, defense policy, budget decisions as well as general political and ideological mobilization in preparation of – their intended – conflict escalation. A striking example comes from Switzerland, a country known ...
By Pavel Volkov Olga Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Candidate of Historical Sciences, researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, senior lecturer at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg), head of the Laboratorium Orientale project, talks about Russian-Chinese relations in the context of the Special military operation, China’s local and global goals, mutual influence, ...
“The decision to deploy NATO troops, including Italians, in Latvia starting in 2018 is idiocy worthy of Barack Obama’s failed foreign policy. Europe and Italy have no interest in creating a Cold War atmosphere with Russia, and furthermore, this provocation is strategically ineffective in countering a hypothetical conflict situation. Unfortunately, European nations are now governed by small politicians who are ...