Will Pakistan Submit To The US-Controlled IMF’s Reported Demand To Renegotiate CPEC Energy Deals? By Andrew Korybko Pakistan must decide between the US-controlled IMF and China with respect to which of those two can most realistically help it avert bankruptcy and… Read More ›
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Ukraine Is Blackmailing The Global South By Officially Demanding Weapons For Wheat
Ukraine Is Blackmailing The Global South By Officially Demanding Weapons For Wheat By Andrew Korybko The so-called “deadlock” over resolving the global food crisis is just as artificially manufactured as its origins since Kiev has now officially declared that it won’t… Read More ›
AUKUS Is Employing Psychological Terrorism To Justify Its Creation
AUKUS Is Employing Psychological Terrorism To Justify Its Creation By Andrew Korybko The discernible pattern is that the US initiates psychological terrorism against China only to have Australia pick it up and spread it further around the region. Chinese Foreign Ministry… Read More ›
Analysing The Pakistani Ambassador To Russia’s Valdai Club Speech
Analysing The Pakistani Ambassador To Russia’s Valdai Club Speech By Andrew Korybko If any prospective oil deal with Russia is doomed to fail like some key Pakistani influencers have insisted, whether due to it apparently being impossible to refine or because… Read More ›
The West African Front Of The New Cold War Might Soon Heat Up
The West African Front Of The New Cold War Might Soon Heat Up By Andrew Korybko In all likelihood, observers should expect that a fierce “shadow war” will be waged between the unipolar and multipolar blocs across West Africa in the… Read More ›
Pakistan Needs To Get Its Story Straight About Russian Oil
Pakistan Needs To Get Its Story Straight About Russian Oil By Andrew Korybko Taken together, the conflicting statements from the new Pakistani officials about oil deals with Russia and the narrative pushed by some of those influencers who support them lead… Read More ›
The Geopolitics Of Russian Energy In South Asia
The Geopolitics Of Russian Energy In South Asia By Andrew Korybko The two countries whose approach stands out the most are Sri Lanka and Pakistan, which are in similar economic situations yet have made different decisions about importing Russian oil. South… Read More ›
Pakistan’s Russian Wheat Import Deal: Business As Usual Or Something Different This Time?
Pakistan’s Russian Wheat Import Deal: Business As Usual Or Something Different This Time? By Andrew Korybko The new government’s latest deal with Russia could muddle the narrative from their opponents that they came to power to punish the former premier for… Read More ›
Pakistan Should Import Food And Fuel From Russia To Counter Economic Crisis
Pakistan Should Import Food And Fuel From Russia To Counter Economic Crisis By Andrew Korybko Mr. Iftikhar clearly had his country’s best interests in mind when responding to the journalist who asked him about this on Friday and should therefore be… Read More ›
Putin Touched Upon Russia’s Grand Geo-Economic Strategy In Eurasia
Putin Touched Upon Russia’s Grand Geo-Economic Strategy In Eurasia By Andrew Korybko The Greater Eurasian Partnership represents Russia’s premier project for creating a genuinely rules-based international order modelled off the principles enshrined in the UN Charter. Its Eurasian Economic Union core… Read More ›