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 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 ›
Saudi Arabia Is Reaping The Geo-Economic Fruits Of Sino-US Competition By Andrew Korybko Through these three major developments over the past year that all directly arose from Vision 2030, MBS was able to do the seemingly impossible by reaping the geo-economic… Read More ›
IMEC Doesn’t Just Compete With CPEC But Arguably Surpasses It In All Respects By Andrew Korybko These neighbouring countries’ fates couldn’t be more different: Pakistan is descending into instability, abject poverty, and isolation while India is rising as a beacon of… Read More ›
Closer AU-EU Ties Aren’t At The Expense Of The Sino-Russo Entente By Andrew Korybko Africa as a whole can capitalize on this by bargaining for better deals from the West, which many of its countries already count as among their top… Read More ›
China Made A Mistake On Its New Map That Sparked False Speculation About A Dispute With Russia By Andrew Korybko In the interests of the Russian-Chinese Strategic Partnership, it would be a good idea for Beijing to quietly modify the latest… Read More ›
It’s Premature To Conclude That The Gabonese Coup Was Driven By Anti-Imperialist Sentiment By Andrew Korybko There are three reasons to be sceptical: 1) Interim President General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema is considered close to the US; 2) economic factors are… Read More ›
Here’s Why President Xi Might Skip The G20 Summit And What It Means For The New Cold War By Andrew Korybko If the New Cold War becomes defined by Sino-US systemic rivalry more than anything else in the aftermath of President… Read More ›
Russia Appears To Have Given Up On Participating In The G20 At The Leadership Level By Andrew Korybko The protracted NATO-Russian proxy war in Ukraine and BRICS’ historic expansion last week combined to finally push the Kremlin to give up on… Read More ›
President Putin’s Speech At The BRICS Business Forum Was Fair And Balanced By Andrew Korybko President Putin’s approach to BRICS can be summarized as prioritizing logistics cooperation with the group’s RIC core, diversifying Russia’s commodities-driven role in Africa’s development, and supporting… Read More ›
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