Eurasia Press & News
A new order may be emerging in the Middle East, but how it is emerging does not fit the core narrative written by Washington. Two decades after the U.S. invaded Iraq in search of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) that didn’t exist, and to implement the George W. Bush “freedom …
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April, 2023
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14 April
What’s Really Going on Between Russia and China
Behind the Scenes, They Are Deepening Their Defense Partnership “There are changes happening, the likes of which we haven’t seen for 100 years,” Chinese leader Xi Jinping said to Russian President Vladimir Putin last month at the end of a state visit to Russia. “Let’s drive those changes together.” To …
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14 April
What Exactly Does Washington Want From Its Trade War With Beijing?
Five years ago, then president Donald Trump launched a tariff-fueled trade war with China designed to reduce the bilateral trade deficit. His successor, President Joe Biden, then added a decoupling focus by restricting high-tech exports and curtailing professional and financial links. Both wanted to reduce imports of manufactured goods and …
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14 April
Putin’s Peril
The Kremlin’s Strongman Is Not as Secure as He Seems In just under a year, on March 17, Russians will head to the polls for the 2024 presidential election. Given the country’s current social and political conditions, few people doubt that President Vladimir Putin will easily receive a sixth term. …
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14 April
The Strategic Consequences of a Kılıçdaroğlu Victory Over Erdoğan
For the first time in twenty years, a change of leadership in Turkey is possible. The EU must be prepared for the foreign policy shift an opposition victory would bring. Whether in the first round on May 14 or the second on May 28, Turkey’s presidential election will ultimately be …
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14 April
Steppe Change: How Russia’s War On Ukraine Is Reshaping Kazakhstan – Analysis
Introduction Kazakhstan experienced a year of shocks and change in 2022. In early January, the country was shaken for five days by widespread protests and unrest. The protests started over sharp hikes in fuel prices, but quickly swept up a range of other domestic issues, growing violent in the former …
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14 April
Macron’s Muddled China Outreach – Analysis
Just when it seemed the European Union was finally achieving strategic coherence as a global geopolitical actor, French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent visit to China has shattered that myth. The French president and the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, headed to China last week, hoping to …
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14 April
Credit Suisse Bailout: Swiss Parliament Complains In Vain
The government’s handling of the Credit Suisse meltdown was rejected by a frosty parliament this week during an extraordinary session on the historic UBS takeover. But the vote against the rescue plan has no legal consequences and has been all but ignored by financial markets and international media. On March …
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14 April
Why Do Most Countries Have Their Own Currency? Governments Wanted It That Way – Analysis
Among the many facts of modern life that are accepted without question by most ordinary people is that it is somehow perfectly natural, expected, and unremarkable that every sovereign state should have its own currency. We see this everywhere in names such as “the U.S. dollar” or “the Chinese yuan” …
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14 April
Rada Trajković: Everything that Vučić and the Serbian List should do in Kosovo, they do through the mafia and the parallel system
Aleksandar Vučić, the president of Serbia, is trying to maintain his importance and role on the international level through the issue of Kosovo – believes Rada Trajković, president of the European Movement of Serbs from Kosovo and advisor to the Minister for Communities and Return in the Government of Kosovo. …
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