Tag: Cold War
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From “Belt and Road” to basement markets
Following Bashar al-Assad’s rehabilitation with the Arab League, it was China’s turn to acknowledge his return to the world stage. Syria has a lot of oil that it can sell to China but it’s not as if China needs Syria to add to its energy procurement list. Currently, China has unfettered and discounted access to…
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This time it’s not different (part 3): BRICS is not new and will not dominate the West
The Zoltan Poszars of today have either skipped all their lessons in their 20th-century history class, or they are missing out on the most basic and fundamental facts of the global economy. Either way, they are wrong as they have always been. There is a lot of hype on BRICS and this hype has been…
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The view from the other side: Cooperation vs Competition
The West is currently its own worst enemy. As Western states frantically go to China whilst competing with each other for China’s friendship, all of them miss the most basic point, that China is not cooperating with us as a genuine partner of goodwill, but competing with us for political and global control. I find…
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You don’t prevent a Cold War: you either win it or lose it
Last week France and Germany both made defining statements on their foreign policy. Emmanuel Macron gave a series of interviews with US and French press during and after his visit to the US where he claimed amongst other things, that Europe should provide security guarantees for Russia should it choose to end its war in…
