RUSSIA, CHINA, CHAMPION “CONCEPT OF A SINGLE FATE FOR HUMANKIND” – PRESIDENT XI
A mere week after US President Donald Trump flew out of Beijing following a glamorous rare state visit – the first in a decade by a US president – China proved to be a modern-day mecca for crisis diplomacy as Russian President Vladimir Putin stepped in. The contrast in both mood and expectation was palpable […]
A NEW TYPE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IS ON THE AGENDA
Two very different possible futures stare humanity in the face, and we, as a species, have reached what the poet Friedrich Schiller called a punctum saliens, the salient point in history at which we must choose one of two very different directions. The first possible future was advanced in the important state visit just concluded […]
NUCLEAR DOOMSDAY OR A NEW SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT ARCHITECTURE?
The New START treaty—the last remaining nuclear arms agreement between the world’s two largest nuclear superpowers—has expired as of today. Russian President Putin’s offer to the United States to adhere to the treaty’s limitations for one year met with no official response from the U.S.—a non-answer answer. “Given the fact that the world is already […]