Eurasia Press & News
Africa’s huge potential as a global power has yet to be realized largely because of ongoing colonialist legacies. The Russia-Africa summit this week could not have been held at a more timely juncture in international relations. The event symbolizes seminal global change, which ultimately heralds a better future for humanity, …
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August, 2023
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1 August
Yemen: Houthis Target Government Troops In Taiz
Yemen’s military officials said on Sunday that the Iran-backed Houthis had launched attacks on government troops outside the besieged city of Taiz and fired reconnaissance drones in the last 48 hours, the latest in a series of Houthi military efforts to make headway toward the city’s downtown. Abdul Basit Al-Baher, …
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1 August
(Re)Claiming Its Influence: Russia’s Role In Afghanistan – Analysis
The fall of Kabul in August 2021 prompted discussions about the end of Western influence in the country and an opportunity for China and Russia to dig their heels in the ‘graveyard of empires’. In the immediate aftermath, in contrast with Afghanistan’s other neighbours, Russia didn’t close its embassy in …
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July, 2023
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30 July
At Ukraine’s Edge, Russia Presses Hybrid War on Tiny Moldova
U.S. and partners should unify their support for Moldovans’ aim to join the European Union. At a sensitive edge of Russia’s war on Ukraine, Moscow is sustaining a campaign to regain control in Moldova, the small, ex-Soviet republic landlocked between Ukraine and Romania. Russia has maneuvered for years to scuttle …
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30 July
A Coup in Niger: What It Means for Africa, U.S. and Partners
An eighth coup around the Sahel shows we need better responses to the world’s most unstable region. This morning’s coup d’etat in Niger only deepens the pattern of instability across Africa’s Sahel and damages what has been a rare process of fairly steady democracy building in the region. Niger’s democratically …
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30 July
Why it’s time to repatriate IS foreign fighters
As the clock ticks down on the repatriation of Islamic State (IS) foreign fighters from Syria, a recent development has added a new sense of urgency to the situation. On June 11, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), the de facto authority in northeast Syria, announced its …
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30 July
Biden’s Legacy: The Axis of Tyrannies
A New World Order Dominated by China, Russia and the Iranian Regime, with North Korea Heading Up the Rear [T]he weak and possibly compromised administration of U.S. President Joe Biden appears to have enabled and empowered the autocrats of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, all of whom seem to …
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28 July
Private Corporations Don’t Cause Price Inflation: Governments Do – OpEd
Interventionists always blame inflation on everything and anything except the only thing that makes aggregate prices rise: Issuing more units of currency than the real demand. Seller inflation is the same excuse and fallacy as cost-push inflation. A way to confuse citizens and assign causation to something that cannot make …
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28 July
Issues And Recommendations For China’s Virtual Power Plants – Analysis
With China working on its dual-carbon goals and under the current high temperature, virtual power plants have been consistently dominating the country’s new energy sector since the beginning of this year. In fact, in 2022, the 14th Five-Year Plan for Modern Energy System proposed to promote flexible resources such as …
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28 July
Paris Plays Spoiler On NATO’s Deepening Indo-Pacific Ambitions – Analysis
For two consecutive years, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) summits welcomed the leaders of the Indo-Pacific 4 (IP4) countries—Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand—who are considered NATO’s “partners across the globe”. The Russia-Ukraine conflict has emboldened cooperation both within NATO and its 31 members, but also with the IP4 …
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