China

Viktor Alksnis05.09.2024

It seems that the issue of building the Soyuz-Vostok gas pipeline through Mongolia to China was not resolved during the official visit of the Russian President to Ulaanbaatar. Apparently, Mongolia succumbed to pressure from China and removed the issue of building the gas pipeline from the agenda. Let me remind you of the essence of […]

Vladimir Morozov31.08.2024

This is the first trip of the US presidential adviser for national security issues to China in an eight-year hiatus. In addition, Jake Sullivan is visiting China for the first time in his current position. 1). Washington’s tactic is to keep Beijing under its political and financial pressure in order to try to force China […]

Sergey Stankevich02.08.2024

This new sensational reality has been going on for five months now. And geopolitical analysts still can’t see the light. This is a tectonic shift before our eyes. The shift is not accidental, but controlled. The government’s chief economic adviser Anantha Nageswaran announced a course to attract more direct investment from China. And Finance Minister […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky29.07.2024

Reuters journalists conducted a classic journalistic investigation in an attempt to understand how online trade and the availability of chemical recipes on the Internet can contribute to the fentanyl drug epidemic in the United States. The journalists did it simply: they found a recipe for making fentanyl from precursors on the Internet. Then they found […]

Sergey Stankevich19.07.2024

While Brussels and the Biden administration distance themselves from Georgia, resenting pressures on transparency at their client organizations, China is offering Tbilisi aid without political strings attached. And does not allow the proud country to fall into ruin. Let us recall that in May a Chinese consortium was chosen as the strategic investor of the […]

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 […]

In Mongolia, Soyuz-Vostok Gasline Remains of the Agenda

Sullivan arrives in Beijing for a multi-day visit

China Has Become India’s Main Trade and Investment Partner

Making $3,000,000 in Drugs in the US is Easy

China helps Georgia Explore the Sea, Air, and Earth

Our Kind Xi

China’s Strong Move

Zelensky in Singapore

What’s with the Russian Oil?

Oh, You … Honduras

The Michael Jackson Biopic is Missing its Most Controversial Story

Madama Butterfly and the Japan of the Western Imagination

The Spanish Civil War at 90: the Republic’s Response

Terminator Is about 80 Years Old

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