WORLD REVIEW AND FORECAST SHOWS THINGS MAY GET WORSE BEFORE THEY GET ANY BETTER
We’ve come to the very end of a treacherous year in international relations. There have been so many events happening, so many divisive statements uttered and so many men and women brazenly embrace war-talk. Yet, despite all the apparent gloom and doom there was reasonable hope for the future amidst the present that is characterised […]
US ARMING TAIWAN IS TO POKE NOSE INTO CHINA’S SOVEREIGNTY
If actions indeed speak louder than words,this week’s decision by the US to approve a record weapons sale toTaiwan is proof that the Trump administration is doing everything in its military power to trigger a confrontation with China. The 11.1 billion dollar sale of massive package of advanced weaponry for Taiwan was greenlighted byPete Hegseth’s […]
“SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION” (SCO) IS A NEW WORLD POWER RISING TO REPLACE THE OBSOLETE UN SYSTEM
In a week in which the US vetoed a UN Security Council (UNSC) binding resolution aimed at ordering the immediate ceasefire in Gaza, let aid into the starving population and release the hostages held by Hamas, the relevance of UN was inadvertently put in the dock. Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian representative to the UN, summed […]
“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 […]