Indonesia’s Multi-Alignment Strategy Could Become A Model For The Global South By Andrew Korybko Prabowo and his team are doing a great job balancing between leading players in the global systemic transition while crucially keeping Indonesia out of New Cold War… Read More ›
Russia’s Deputy PM Just Confirmed Russia’s Rare Earths Strategy Is About Technological Sovereignty By Andrew Korybko His explicitly stated goal of strengthening Russia’s technological sovereignty implies the unstated one of reducing dependence on China in this respect, which sends a very strong… Read More ›
From Quad To “Squad”: Why The Philippines Is Becoming Washington’s New Anti-China Proxy By Uriel Araujo As the Quad struggles with internal contradictions and worsening US-India tensions, the Philippines is rapidly becoming central to Washington’s Indo-Pacific strategy. Joint military exercises, missile… Read More ›
AUKUS+? Seoul’s Nuclear Submarine Gamble And The Future Of Asian Geopolitics By Uriel Araujo South Korea’s long pursuit of nuclear-powered submarines now coincides with Washington’s shifting alliance strategy. Analysts see an emerging AUKUS+ system as Seoul ramps up spending and regional… Read More ›
Indonesia’s Strategic Embrace Of North Korea May Rewrite Indo-Pacific Power Dynamics By Uriel Araujo A landmark visit to North Korea has revived Indonesia-Pyongyang ties and raised questions about Jakarta’s long-term strategy. As Indonesia modernizes its defence and hedges between global powers,… Read More ›
Putin’s Master Plan For The Russian Arctic And Far East Will Speed Up The Global South’s Rise By Andrew Korybko The end result might be the world’s bifurcation into the US-led “Global West” and the Chinese-led Global South. Putin elaborated on… Read More ›
Ceasefire In The Crosshairs: Thailand, Cambodia, And The Proxy Front Of The New Cold War By Uriel Araujo The recent ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia comes amid coup rumours in Bangkok, Chinese support for Phnom Penh, and Trump’s boasts of “bringing… Read More ›
Thailand’s Domestic Dynamics Are Likely Responsible For The Latest Clashes With Cambodia By Andrew Korybko They’re not due to some divide-and-rule plot by the US or anyone else like some might speculate. Intense clashes broke out along the colonial-era French-drawn Cambodian-Thai border… Read More ›
From Bombs To Benefits: Laos And Russia’s Military-Political Trade-Off By Andrew Korybko Laos would bolster its geopolitical balancing act while Russia could experiment with a new military-political partnership model that it might then fine-tune for its other Global South partners. Ukraine’s… Read More ›
Lavrov Elaborated On Russia’s Afro-Eurasian Grand Strategy By Andrew Korybko These ambitious plans will obviously take time to unfold, and there might be some road bumps along the way, but the importance rests in the fact that this is what Russia… Read More ›
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