Defensive Walls Don’t Foster Innovation By Mehmet Enes Beşer As speeding up global competition in the emerging technologies sweeps across the world, America remains one of the globe’s most vibrant hotspots of innovation. It possesses topflight universities, top-flight research institutes, and a spirit of entrepreneurship that drives innovation breakthrough after innovation breakthrough. America still remakes the digital age. But even ...
China–US impasse is not the product of inevitability—it is the result of political inertia, domestic pressures, and a misplaced understanding of interdependence. By Mehmet Enes Beşer In a climate of growing tensions and mounting rhetoric, China–US relations look more precarious by the minute. From tech controls and trade wars to ideological sparring and geostrategic posturing, both countries have been caught ...
Beijing, Moscow, and Tehran: Different Parts of the Same Front By Orçun Göktürk, from Beijing / China More than a week has passed since the renewed attacks by the US and Israel against Iran and the assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. During this period, Iran targeted almost all US bases in West Asia and carried out successful retaliations against ...
If China it thinks that by “wooing” the business sector and the right-wing governments that hate them, it will gain ground in Latin America and the Caribbean, it confirms that it understands little to nothing about what is happening in the region and what the Monroe Doctrine and the Trump Corollary mean. The process of containing China’s economic presence in ...
A Panamanian court changed the administration of the canal. Here’s the background and wider geopolitical context. By Dr. Fernando Esteche The decision by Panama’s Supreme Court to annul the concession that allowed CK Hutchison to operate the Cristóbal and Balboa ports on the Panama Canal represents the culmination of a geopolitical operation executed with surgical precision. The ruling by Panama’s ...
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”. 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 again entered an alternate ...
A Competition the World Can’t Afford to Lose By Mehmet Enes Beşer The race in clean energy technology between the United States and China is gathering pace—and increasingly it’s being fueled by an avalanche of subsidies. With billions flowing in from both sides on batteries, hydrogen, electric cars, and solar panels, the world is witnessing a new age of industrial ...
Since the 1960s, Washington used drugs’ policy, both domestically and internationally. During the last decade of the last century, following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the United States set out to find a new enemy to serve as a pivot for reorganizing its foreign and military policy. Initially, it found one in ...
Why Trump decided to seek rapprochement with China. In 2011, long before entering active politics, Donald Trump tweeted that China was the enemy of the United States and that his goal was to destroy it. He later asserted, “On trade, the Chinese are cheats.” A year later, in 2012, he commented, “The concept of global warming was created by and ...
But China is not Japan… By Orçun Göktürk from Beijing / China On September 22, 1985, the United States hosted its allies within the “capitalist bloc” at the Plaza Hotel in New York. The main objective of the meeting, attended by West Germany, Japan, France, and the United Kingdom, was to reduce the value of the excessively overvalued U.S. dollar—particularly ...