La raison du regain d’intérêt d’Ankara et de Doha pour cet accord réside dans la reconnaissance que les États-Unis ne garantissent plus la sécurité régionale (ou quoi que ce soit qu’elle ait été) et dans la prise de conscience que, de fait, la présence de bases américaines les place dans le collimateur de leurs adversaires. Le ministre pakistanais de la […]

Le président Vladimir Poutine conclu sa visite d’État en Chine hier (20 mai), marquant ce qui semble être l’une des plus productives, tournées vers l’avenir et stratégiquement significatives Sommets Russie-Chine ces dernières années. La visite a généré des revenus substantiels résultats dans les domaines du commerce, de l’investissement, de l’énergie, de la technologie, de la connectivité et de la coordination […]

Les Nouvelles Routes de la Soie/BRI et leurs ramifications, telles que la Route maritime du Nord/Route de la Soie arctique, sont toujours bien présentes. SHANGHAI – C’est parti ! Le partenariat stratégique russo-chinois, les leaders du processus d’intégration eurasienne, les dirigeants des organisations multipolaires BRICS et de l’OCS, ont officiellement approuvé et renforcé la dynamique vers la multipolarité et un […]

A senior Taliban delegation led by Hedayatullah Badri, the Taliban’s minister of mines and petroleum, traveled to Turkmenistan on Thursday for talks on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India, or TAPI, gas pipeline project. The delegation also included Abdul Latif Mansoor, the Taliban’s minister of energy and water, according to a statement from the Taliban administration. The statement said the discussions covered progress on […]

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio voiced hope of progress on ending the war with Iran, as he looked to Pakistani mediators to help advance efforts to strike an agreement. Previous comments by President Donald Trump had suggested weeks of stop-start negotiations to strike a permanent end to the war were teetering on the “borderline” between a deal and renewed […]

European intelligence agencies believe the Chinese military has trained hundreds of Russian soldiers for fighting in Ukraine, according to Germany’s Die Welt newspaper, which cited secret documents it had seen. The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) reportedly hosted covert training for several hundred Russian soldiers late last year at six military bases in China, the newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing […]

An Uzbek government and business delegation has arrived in Kabul for trade discussions with Taliban officials and the country’s business representatives, the Taliban-run Ministry of Industry and Commerce said Wednesday. According to the ministry, the delegation is led by Nazimjon Kholmuradov, head of Uzbekistan’s Agency for the Development of the Textile Industry under the country’s Cabinet of Ministers. The Taliban […]

Taliban leader has appointed Hamdullah Nomani, their former minister of communications, as their mayor in Herat, two weeks after he was removed from the ministry post. Nomani was removed from his post as Taliban minister of communications about two weeks ago and replaced by Abdul Ahad Fazli, the Taliban governor of Faryab province. Nomani had served as communications minister since […]

Ali Alizadeh: The American readout of the Trump–Xi meeting claims that Xi explicitly agreed that the Strait of Hormuz must remain open, that there must be no tolls, that China opposes the militarisation of the Strait, that China will buy more American oil to reduce its dependence on Hormuz, and that Iran must never have a nuclear weapon. The Chinese […]

Toplines The South Korean government is considering “phased” participation in the United States-led multinational operation “Maritime Freedom Construct” (MFC) after a South Korean investigation revealed on May 11 that an “external impact” caused an explosion on the civilian vessel Namu-ho in the Strait of Hormuz. Namu-ho is a Panamanian-flagged cargo ship operated by South Korean firm Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) […]