“UPHOLD THE GREAT PRINCIPLE, AND THE WORLD WILL FOLLOW,” SAYS CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING
At the recent summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Plus (SCO) held in Tianjin, China, President Xi Jinping proposed before dozens of world leaders a fresh pathway to a new international world order in which sovereignty of nations would become sacrosanct. The Chinese president coined the phrase Global Governance Initiative (GGI) as the latest concept […]
IN THE ONCE FEARED RIGHTWING TOWN OF EUGENE TERRE’BLANCHE, BLACK RESIDENTS LIVE FREELY IN A DEMOCRACY
Throngs of community members in the JB Marks Local Municipality converged on the local hall to engage face-to-face with the North West government officials led by stand-in Premier Madoda Sambatha. The setting was Ventersdorp, a dorpie along the N14 motorway that was once synonymous with the rightwing Afrikaner politician Eugene Terre’Blanche, he of the infamous […]
THE DETERIORATING US-EU RELATIONS HERALDS THE DAWN OF A NEW INTERNATIONAL WORLD ORDER
The flurry of geopolitical activities, and the turbo-charged speed at which the reconfiguration of the international world order is taking place, signals the demise of Europe as a sphere of significant influence in world politics. In the same vein, the rapid changes in international relations are characterized by the reawakening of the Global South as […]
PRESIDENT PUTIN’S CALLS TO RAMAPHOSA SIGNIFIES THE IMPORTANCE OF SA-RUSSIA RELATIONS
This week, Russian President Vladimir Putin called his South African counterpart, President Cyril Ramaphosa. The purpose of the telephone call was crystal clear and straight to the point. The Kremlin sought to brief Pretoria – first hand – about President Putin’s views over his recent globally publicized face-to-face talks with the US President Donald Trump […]
PRESIDENT TRUMP “HAS ALL THE CARDS” TO PLAY WITH PUTIN – EUROPE HAS NONE
Europe’s perpetual reliance on the US in global affairs was bound to implode at a certain point. The increasing isolation of Europe from the US-led efforts to broker a peace deal with Russia to end the Ukraine conflict shines the light on an age-old truism, which goes as follows: “In politics, there are no permanent […]
“HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI” EXPOSES THE SIMMERING INEQUITIES IN THE UN SYSTEM
The first week of every August month in history exposes, in my view, the depths of the failures and deep-seated false pretenses of international diplomacy as a vehicle for civil resolve of differences and consensus-building mechanism. It was on August 6 and 9 respectively, 80 years ago when the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima […]
THE WINDS OF CHANGE ARE FINALLY BLOWING IN FAVOUR OF PALESTINE
The tide is turning – and at a blistering pace – for the recognition of the Palestinian statehood by a growing majority of the nations of the world. As of much this year, 147 out of the 193 UN member-states officially recognize the State of Palestine. At the end of a widely publicized conference on […]
FINALLY, WESTERN MEDIA SPEAKS OUT AGAINST ISRAEL – ALBEIT BELATEDLY!
The silence, nay, collaboration of the Western mainstream media with Israel’s genocidal military onslaught against Gaza and the Palestinian people in general has been mind-boggling. Since October 2023 when Hamas launched a surprise violent attack in Southern Israel that resulted in some 1,200 people killed, life for Palestinian men, women and children has been akin […]
TRUMP’S UNIPOLAR TARIFFS MAKE THE US LOOK LIKE “A MONKEY PLAYING WITH A GRENADE” – EXPERT
President Donald Trump’s yo-yoing foreign policy continues to cause unprecedented ructions in international relations, with his sudden adoption of a hard stance against Russia the latest example of the dreaded unpredictability in diplomacy. One expert has likened President Trump’s cantankerous approach to foreign relations to a “monkey playing with a hand-grenade”. In a typical flip-flop […]
BRICS IS A CATALYST FOR INEVITABLE CHANGES IN UNJUST WORLD AFFAIRS
Brazilian President Lula Da Silva’s blunt assessment of the current state of world politics would have been frightening were his views not so much of an open secret. During the recently-concluded BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro, President Lula stated: “We are witnessing an unprecedented collapse of multilateralism.” In more ways than one, the Brazilian […]
IMPERFECT AS HE IS, PRESIDENT TRUMP’S EFFORTS TOWARD PEACE ARE COMMENDABLE
US President Donald Trump attracts avalanches of international scrutiny for all the right reasons – he is after all the commander-in-chief of the world’s most potent army and presides over an economy with significant global influence. Washington’s penchant for a cantankerous foreign policy that is replete with unpredictability is also an added reason to the […]
BRICS MUST ACCEPT MORE MEMBERS TO BECOME A TRUE CATALYST FOR A NEW, BETTER WORLD ORDER
The annual BRICS Summit, to be attended by heads of state, takes place in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro in early July. BRICS, acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, is expanding at the speed of a lightning. At the 2023 BRICS Summit in South Africa, six more countries were accepted as members into […]