Tag: geopolitics
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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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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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Get ready for a new world order
I know what you are thinking. Having been impressed by all the headlines of the US Dollar collapse and the debt ceiling, Lula’s trip to Brazil, BRICS, China’s ever-growing global reach and the strength of the Yuan, OPEC and Saudi Arabia controlling the oil price, the European gas crisis… Guess what? It’s going to be…
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Empowering tyrants and facilitating war
Armed with an army of literally drunk diplomats, and foreign policy texts which spell out basic errors in historical facts, Emmanuel Macron has visited China on a very friendly visit and proclaimed that Europe must reduce its dependence on the US. He also did other things. He made a commitment to China that France would…
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Champagne diplomacy
What is he doing, really? And what does he think he’s doing anyway? Emmanuel Macron’s bizarre foreign policy is that France is a global player on its own and is trying to position itself as a mediator between East (Russia and China) and West, Europe and the United States. You may remember him trying to…
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The myth of Russian indispensability
The reminiscences of Europe’s Dark Ages keep coming back as Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz capitulate to Europe’s aggressor compromising in the process its security and defence. Abroad, the consequences of Scholz and Macron are that Russia keeps waging its war on Ukraine with impunity while other authoritarian regimes, especially those that have nuclear weapons…
