Warplanes, Kurds and anti-Turkish sanctions – According to Bloomberg, Ankara is ready to trade Sweden and Finland’s NATO membership for a range of concessions. However, none of them have anything to do with the current crisis in Ukraine. NATO’s renewed expansion – this time in the Baltics – is in jeopardy as Turkey threatens to […]
According to Chinese experts, the Ukraine conflict reflects the expansionist crisis of a divided West. The West can only accept the same – everything that is different it either tries to assimilate or sees as an enemy that needs to be eliminated. An analysis by Wang Yiwei and Liao Huang At first glance, the escalating […]
20 Apr 2022 06:15 am A Chinese researcher warns of the dangerous consequences of the Ukraine war. Western leverage against Russia would only exacerbate the situation and provoke further reactions from Moscow. by Wang Weng The armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine has been protracted, making the world a more dangerous place. On the surface, […]
9 Mar 2022 8:16 am Russia’s offensive in Ukraine has provoked strong backlash worldwide, especially in the western world – an understandable reaction against a war of aggression that violates international law. But this event has been predicted by world-leading foreign policy experts for decades. A commentary by Bradley Blankenship From George Kennan to Henry […]
18 Feb 2022 9:45 p.m The Spiegel editors acted very surprised in view of a meeting transcript from 1991, in which a promise to Russia is actually mentioned not to expand NATO to the east. Although one hates to admit that the Russians are right, the truth has always been discoverable. by Dagmar Henn At […]
18 Feb 2022 4:18 pm In the Ukraine conflict, China emphasizes the need for European states to make decisions “in accordance with their own interests” – which Beijing probably wants to imply that they should not be guided by anti-Russian US incitement. A Chinese diplomat on Thursday demanded that a solution to the Ukraine conflict […]
8 Feb 2022 7:26 pm Beijing has again explained why it supports Moscow’s call for a limit on NATO expansion. Earlier, the secretary-general of the military bloc, Jens Stoltenberg, accused Beijing of “denying sovereign nations the right to make their own decisions.” The Chinese mission to the EU on Tuesday pointed out that NATO is […]
4 Feb 2022 11:02 am Beijing supports Moscow’s call for an end to NATO’s eastward expansion. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have joined forces amid an escalating row between Moscow and the US-led military bloc in Eastern Europe to call on NATO to halt their expansion plans and avoid a […]
3 Feb 2022 1:31 pm Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy’s plans for a massive increase in Ukraine’s armed forces are of questionable value and may even be legally dubious. This was pointed out by a high-ranking Ukrainian MP. In a statement Tuesday, Maria Ionova, a deputy for the European Solidarity Party led by former President Petro […]