December, 2021

• 17 December

  Why Did Russian President Putin Visit India? – Analysis

  

  Russian President Vladimir Putin visited India in the first week of December. The visit was significant in part because Putin has not traveled abroad to attend recent summits in person, like the G-20 in late October in Rome and COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland in November. Putin did go, however, to …

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• 17 December

  From Prague To Washington

  

  Saule Omarova, the proud Komsomol who wrote about Karl Marx on a Lenin scholarship, has withdrawn her nomination and will not be the next comptroller of the currency in the Treasury Department. The Moscow State alum, once arrested for theft, aimed to replicate Soviet banking in America. Senator Tim Scott …

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• 17 December

  China Seeks Atlantic Ocean Military Base – Analysis

  

  China is exploring the possibility of building its first military base on the Atlantic ocean, according to classified intelligence reports viewed by the Wall Street Journal. The proposed host for the military base is Equatorial Guinea, a small central African country of approximately 1.4 million people. Politically, Equatorial Guinea is …

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• 17 December

  Chinese President Xi, Russia’s Putin, Hold Video Meeting

  

  Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping met Wednesday via video conference, stressing their strong alliance amid both countries’ deteriorating relations with the west. “A new model of cooperation has been formed between our countries, based, among other things, on such principles as non-interference in internal affairs, …

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• 17 December

  Perspectives On Kosovo-Serbia Dialogue – OpEd

  

  We ought not to consider The Balkans a region completely immune from potential crises and conflicts. The symptoms of this assumption are clearly visible in the current political situation in Bosnia, which is risking to enter into a new conflict with unforeseeable consequences, even 25 years after the Dayton Peace …

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• 17 December

  The New Era Of Great Power Competition And The Biden Administration: Emerging Patterns And Principles – Analysis

  

  The administration of President Joseph Biden began in early 2021 amid daunting domestic challenges and an evolving era of Great Power competition (GPC). This era—emerging since 2008, evident since 2014, and on full display since 2017—features a three-state GPC where the United States, China, and Russia joust for international status …

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• 17 December

  Will We See Deflation In The Next 12 Months? – Analysis

  

  I’m not worried at this point about a deflationary spiral, but I see what, to my view, is a plausible scenario where the CPI actually goes negative in the next twelve months. I go through the categories and my predictions component by component below, but there are four main items …

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• 17 December

  Anna Słojewska: Chybiona szarża

  

  Pomysł angażowania kapitału politycznego Polski do walki o likwidację czy jakieś fundamentalne zmiany w unijnym systemie handlu emisjami jest nietrafiony z kilku powodów. Propozycja Solidarnej Polski, by zlikwidować unijny system handlu emisjami (ETS), jest niemądra i nierealistyczna. Jeśli premier ją podejmie i będzie przekonywał europejskich partnerów do znaczących zmian w …

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• 17 December

  Så dags att vakna nu, Linde och Dadgostar

  

  Gaspriset rusar igen efter att den nya tyska regeringen har uttalat sig om den rysk-tyska gasledningen Nordstream 2. Ansökan uppfyller inte kraven för godkännande, heter det. Men den egentliga orsaken är troligen en annan: Så länge Ryssland hotar med en ny invasion av Ukraina kan inte Tyskland ge grönt ljus …

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• 17 December

  Germany expels Russian diplomats after court rules Moscow ordered murder of dissident

  

  Incident represents ‘serious violation’ of German law and sovereignty, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said. Germany expelled two Russian diplomats Wednesday after a Berlin court ruled a man had murdered a Chechen dissident on behalf of the Moscow government in what the presiding judge declared was an act of “state terrorism.” …

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