Analysing China’s Sacking Of Defence Minister Li Shangfu By Andrew Korybko While China has the sovereign right to make whatever leadership changes it wants without having to explain the reasons why to the public, it’s also a Great Power with global… Read More ›
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President Putin Raised Awareness About Russia’s Investment Potential In The Arctic At This Year’s BRI Forum
President Putin Raised Awareness About Russia’s Investment Potential In The Arctic At This Year’s BRI Forum By Andrew Korybko By encouraging more foreign investment in the North-South Transport Corridor that India is involved in, including from China as regards those projects… Read More ›
Afghanistan’s Participation In CPEC Would Be Positive But Can’t Be Taken For Granted
Afghanistan’s Participation In CPEC Would Be Positive But Can’t Be Taken For Granted By Andrew Korybko The tense Pakistani-Taliban security dilemma, US influence over Islamabad, and CPEC’s lacklustre progress in recent years combine to temper expectations. The Taliban’s acting Commerce Minister revealed that… Read More ›
The Seven Empires: A Multipolar Project – Alexander Dugin
The Seven Empires: A Multipolar Project By Alexander Dugin The multipolar world denotes the coexistence of several empires, fully sovereign primarily in relation to the USA, against its claim to exclusivity and universality, and also towards each other. Today, the… Read More ›
Possible Scenarios Of Further Escalation In The Middle East – Alexander Dugin
Possible Scenarios Of Further Escalation In The Middle East By Alexander Dugin Let us try to describe one of the possible scenarios of further escalation in the Middle East. The Palestinian uprising begins in the West Bank and East Jerusalem…. Read More ›
Kazakhstan’s Pro-EU Pivot Poses A Challenge For The Sino-Russo Entente
Kazakhstan’s Pro-EU Pivot Poses A Challenge For The Sino-Russo Entente By Andrew Korybko The Sino-Russo Entente dislikes Tokayev’s reliance on the EU as the means for averting Kazakhstan’s potentially disproportionate dependence on them. His pledge to uphold the West’s anti-Russian sanctions… Read More ›
The Intercept’s Latest Leak Might Deal Irreparable Damage To Pakistani-Chinese Relations
The Intercept’s Latest Leak Might Deal Irreparable Damage To Pakistani-Chinese Relations By Andrew Korybko At the same time as Pakistani officials were negotiating with Russia to import oil and abstaining from anti-Russian UNGA Resolutions alongside China, their country’s arms were being… Read More ›
RT’s Critique Of IMEC Only Debunks The Western Narrative But Doesn’t Discredit This Project
RT’s Critique Of IMEC Only Debunks The Western Narrative But Doesn’t Discredit This Project By Andrew Korybko Taken together, all four of Fomenko’s points conclusively prove that IMEC isn’t an “historic challenge” to BRI, but this doesn’t discredit that new project… Read More ›
The Reported Russian-North Korean Military Deal Is All About Geostrategic Balancing
The Reported Russian-North Korean Military Deal Is All About Geostrategic Balancing By Andrew Korybko Russia and North Korea’s complementary balancing acts at the global and national levels vis-a-vis China coupled with China’s reluctance to burn all bridges with the West as… Read More ›
Vietnam Can’t Be Faulted For Comprehensively Expanding Strategic Ties With The US
Vietnam Can’t Be Faulted For Comprehensively Expanding Strategic Ties With The US By Andrew Korybko All that Vietnam is trying to do is strike the best balance of interests possible whereby it maximally benefits from all parties without harming any of… Read More ›