China

Sergey Stankevich05.07.2024

The chairmanship of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization will pass from Kazakhstan in rotation to China. Thus, Xi Jinping will become twice chairman. When taking over the presidency, Xi just said in Astana: China is ready to jointly build an even closer community of common destiny with all SCO member countries. Including Russia. But while Russia […]

Sergey Stankevich16.06.2024

China continues to expand the yuan into the global financial system. For now this is reconnaissance in force. In May 2024, China issued government debt bonds with maturities of 30 and 20 years, which was enthusiastically welcomed by international investors who lined up. And then came the next shot. China on June 14 listed its […]

Sergey Stankevich05.06.2024

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The Shangri La Dialogue has opened, an annual intergovernmental forum on security held by the independent think tank International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). The forum’s name is taken from a hotel in Singapore where meetings have been held since 2002. Defense ministers, permanent heads of ministries and other military leaders of 28 Asia-Pacific countries […]

Sergey Stankevich23.04.2023

The movement of oil supplies from the Russian Federation from the European direction to China has accelerated sharply. With accelerating economic growth, China is changing its oil import strategy. Between November 2022 and January 2023, Chinese state oil companies refrained from explicit and bulk purchases of oil from the Russian Federation. Apparently, they had a […]

Sergey Stankevich29.03.2023

Taiwan received a blow from where it did not expect. Until now, the island has had diplomatic relations with only 13 countries, mostly poor and developing countries in Central America, the Caribbean and the Pacific. And here is minus one. The Honduras Foreign Ministry said it recognizes the People’s Republic of China as the sole […]

Sergey Stankevich03.03.2023

In China, the “Two Sessions” kicked off, marking the end of a bidecadal reshuffling of the country’s most powerful positions. After the landmark victory of the nation’s leader Xi Jinping at the 20th Congress of the ruling Communist Party in October 2022, he continues to consolidate power. The two sessions in March 2023 include: (1) […]

Sergey Stankevich02.02.2023

The US continues to try (apparently not very successful) to completely cut off, or at least hold China back in terms of access to advanced microelectronics. Especially to those integrated circuits that are used in the development of thermonuclear weapons and in their application. From time to time, it turns out that China has once […]

Sergey Stankevich26.01.2023

In the past year, the global car market as a whole sank: cars began to be bought less. But there is a notable exception. According to DIGITIMES research, annual sales of EVs reached 9.78 million units in 2022, which means an annual growth rate of 49%! 14 million EVs are expected to be sold in […]

Nicholas Erin09.11.2022

Ottawa has ruled three Chinese groups to get rid of their stakes in Canadian critical mineral companies after intelligence authorities reviewed their money posed a threat to national security. The announcement mirrors a notable hardening of Canada’s stance towards China. In particular, the government instructed Sinomine (Hong Kong) Rare Metals Resources, Chengze Lithium International and […]

Yuri Chekalin18.10.2022

Pyongyang’s nuclear capability is increasing, but international capacity or interest in dealing with them is limited. The details vary, but the picture is immediately recognizable: a salvo of missiles followed by chilling new rhetoric. This time, North Korean state media claimed that the recent flurry of tests simulated strikes against targets in South Korea and […]

China

Our Kind Xi

China’s Strong Move

Zelensky in Singapore

What’s with the Russian Oil?

Oh, You … Honduras

Movement of Tectonic Plates

Impossible to Close in an Open Global Market

Electrification of the World’s Vehicle Fleet

Chinese companies cut from holdings in Canadian critical mines

Armageddon and North Korea

Solzhenitsyn: A Worldwide Dissident

US Big Brother and Brezhnev

Terrorism in the Year 1917: a Conspicuous Absence

Trump’s Rally in New York Called “Racist” in a Copy-Top Form