As Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing, Xi Jinping sent a carefully calibrated message to Washington: China’s dialogue with the United States will not come at the expense of its strategic partnership with Moscow. Beyond the symbolism and grand ceremony, the Putin-Xi summit revealed a deepening Sino-Russian alignment centered on energy, trade, and the construction of a multipolar order increasingly shaped […]

The phrase was uttered without further ado, in an interview with Fox News from the very heart of Chinese power. “I’m not looking for anybody to become independent. Are we supposed to travel 9,500 miles to fight a war? I’m not looking for that,” declared Donald Trump after his two-day meeting with Xi Jinping in Beijing. The US president stated […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited China on May 19-20 and held important meetings with Chinese officials, including his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping. United World International (UWI) writer and political scientist Dr. Onur Sinan Güzaltan evaluated Russian President Putin’s visit. How would you generally assess the outcomes of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to China and his meeting with Xi Jinping? […]

In the past decade, the UN has lost much of its aura as a source of moral authority, let alone meaningful material relevance. Two of its veto-holding members have been engaged in wars of choice, while a third one has been branded a gross violator of human rights. Despite all the talk about a multipolar world system — a meaningless […]

A blast targeting a train carrying military personnel killed at least 24 people on Sunday in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan. A blast targeting a train carrying military personnel killed at least 24 people on Sunday in Pakistan’s turbulent southwestern province of Balochistan, a senior official said. Army servicemen were among the victims of the attack in the provincial capital […]