As Longterm Partnership With Us Fades, Saudi Arabia Seeks to Diversify Its Diplomacy – And Recent Deals With China, Iran and Russia Fit This Strategy
US policy takes a hit in the Middle East.
Read more...US policy takes a hit in the Middle East.
Read more...The deal allows European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to sell a breakthrough without accomplishing anything for Europe.
Read more...The Riyadh-Tehran rapprochement could bring much-needed infrastructure investment in Iran, which is situated at the center of China and Russian-led Eurasian integration efforts, but countries will have to defy or work around US sanctions.
Read more...As higher interest rates and inflation hit developing countries, the IMF is trying to use bailout terms to sideline Beijing.
Read more...Why has Australia signed up for a pricey and security-diminishing nuclear sub deal?
Read more...“Fool me once, shame on thee. Fool me twice, shame on me.” The Global Soutn has wised up in the wake of the war in Iraq.
Read more...Questioning why the US has gone into belligerence over its belief that China will occupy Taiwan.
Read more...One American intelligence expert urged the U.S. to maintain friendly relations with “barbarous, but long-standing allies” in the Middle East lest China fill the vacuum.
Read more...The EU and US are trying to replace Russian gas and push China out of the resource-rich African nation.
Read more...The US seems obsessed with China, yet effectively admits it is behind and unlikely to catch up. And it too quickly dismisses Russia.
Read more...US undersecretary of state Victoria Nuland says to remain calm.
Read more...Biden Administration officials are pleased as punch with their targeting of China’s supposed Achilles heel: dependence on US designed chips.
Read more...The US doth protest too much over China’s napkin doodle peace principles. Why the defensiveness?
Read more...In pressing the Taiwan hot button, is the US misreading China’s capabilities and networks just as it has Russia’s?
Read more...What passes for leadership in the West is becoming more agitated, particulalry over Ukraine.
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