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 […]

IntroductionIn the 21st century, China has transformed itself from a regional power into a global player whose actions shape the development of international relations. Its geopolitical ambitions are based on a combination of historical memory, economic might, technological progress, and military power, formalized in clear doctrines and large-scale projects [13]. While at the end of the 20th century, Beijing’s policy […]

The much-anticipated meeting in Beijing between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping ended without any significant tangible breakthrough in relations between the United States and China. Behind the facade of cordial relations between the leaders, the differences between Washington and Beijing over trade, Taiwan, and Iran became apparent at the end of the two days. The summit also made clear that […]

Over the past decade, China has been steadily reshaping the global nuclear order. According to U.S. government assessments, Beijing has almost tripled its stockpile of nuclear warheads since 2019. It has rapidly increased its nuclear capabilities on land, in the air, and at sea. It has significantly expanded its infrastructure for the research, development, and assembly of nuclear warheads. And […]

Both countries have retained or restored significant public capacity in their strategic economic sectors, which is the opposite of what the structural adjustment programmes were prescribed for the countries of the Global South. The first part of the series looked at the structural gap between formal independence and real sovereignty, following the state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, […]

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 […]