Search result for: "Western Sanctions"

FIFA, Politics, And The Weaponisation Of Sport: A Geopolitical Look At Malaysia's Football Scandal

The recent turbulence surrounding Malaysian football has raised eyebrows far beyond the stadiums and boardrooms of the sport

2025-11-14 10:39:46 0 Comment 24743 view

Losing Focus: Why Washington Must Confront Its Real Rival Before It’s Too Late

Washington’s foreign policy today is spread thin across too many fronts. From Ukraine to the Middle East, from sanctions on Venezuela to tensions in the Taiwan Strait, the U.S. is trying to manage an increasingly fragmented world order

2025-11-12 02:43:11 0 Comment 13173 view

Collective West Continues Driving Conflict At Expense of Ukrainian Nation

The war that began as a defiant stand for sovereignty has turned into a slow and devastating unraveling of a nation

2025-11-12 02:32:23 0 Comment 10882 view

The Rare-Earth Leverage: How China Turns Metal Into Geopolitical Power

China controls over eighty percent of the world’s extraction and processing of rare earth metals. Every chip, every electric motor, every satellite—all of it runs on resources drawn from Chinese soil

2025-11-03 06:08:09 0 Comment 15680 view

Treaties, Not Fantasies: Why The U.S. Must Choose Dialogue Over Destabilisation

In 2008, Russia and China jointly tabled a draft treaty at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, aimed at preventing an arms race in outer space

2025-09-25 09:22:55 0 Comment 28021 view

Xi’s Grand Show of Force Failed to Challenge the US

Chinese President Xi Jinping orchestrated a strategically and purposely intended display of power and diplomacy, from hosting the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Tianjin, to the biggest military parade in Beijing to showcase China’s coming of age to the world

2025-09-12 04:00:12 0 Comment 52114 view

Millions Of Afghans Forced To Return To A Hellscape The World Forgot

It’s been a dark summer for Afghans. When Israel launched the 12-day war with Iran on June 13, Tehran used it as a pretext to scapegoat some of its most vulnerable residents

2025-08-30 10:40:11 0 Comment 50081 view

Could The US-China Trade War Push Beijing To Seize Taiwan?

Hu Xijin, former editor-in-chief of Global Times, recently suggested in a blog post that Beijing should intensify pressure on Taiwan’s government, including tightening the military noose around “Taiwan independence forces”

2025-05-08 05:05:40 0 Comment 30802 view

Streets On Fire: Is Georgia Opposition Forming Up A Coup?

Events have taken an astonishing turn in the Republic of Georgia

2024-12-03 13:11:27 3 Comment 82897 view

Global Shadow Tanker Fleet Moves Growing Volumes Of Sanctioned Oil

Led by the US, Western governments have tightened sanctions on Russia, Iran and Venezuela

2024-11-19 02:41:17 0 Comment 61454 view

Kazan’s BRICS Summit Is A Head-On Challenge To Western Influence

As the BRICS summit unfolds in Kazan, Russia, the significance of this gathering transcends mere diplomatic niceties

2024-11-02 10:13:45 0 Comment 54285 view

BRICS Maintain Growth, Global Minority Forced To Watch

The BRICS countries are certainly strengthening their positions on the global stage

2024-10-24 05:07:47 0 Comment 54593 view

Xi Wants To Enlist The Global South In His Anti-American Movement

At the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation starting September 4, Beijing will once again seek to deepen its engagement with countries in the Global South

2024-08-31 09:03:23 0 Comment 68974 view

China's shift in LNG sanctions: Russian projects face a freeze

Tightening sanctions have already had tangible effects. The Chinese company Wison New Energies, which provides technology for LNG production, has decided to suspend all projects in Russia.

2024-07-10 10:36:19 0 Comment 76714 view

Iran Elections Hinge On Price Of Meat Not Ideology

WASHINGTON, US: Against all odds, Friday’s presidential election in Iran, necessitated by the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash May 19, may actually matter.

2024-07-04 15:05:21 0 Comment 84407 view

US-led Geopolitical Confrontation Will Only Exacerbate Both Domestic And International Crises

BEIJING, China: Many of the world's most pressing issues remain unresolved, yet some countries are still engaging in geopolitical confrontation with China and Russia in the G7 meetings, highlighting the G7's role in serving US geopolitical confrontation.

2024-06-16 15:44:37 0 Comment 82060 view

Iran-Pakistan Tensions And China’s Diplomatic Cards

WASHINGTON, US: Iran and Pakistan’s unprecedented cross-border strikes on January 16 and 18 were as unsettling as they were surprising. Although Tehran has long seen Baloch separatist groups operating in Pakistan’s Balochistan province and Iran’s Sistan and Balochistan provinces as a grave threat, officials in Islamabad were caught off guard when Iran fired a barrage of missiles at two Jaish al-Adl bases without coordination with Pakistan. The Pakistani army then retaliated by firing drones and missiles at the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) targets near the Iranian city of Saravan.

2024-02-08 14:15:27 0 Comment 96445 view

Modernised T-62M Tanks Have Significant Advantages

ANDENNE, Belgium-The T-62 main battle tank was produced from 1962 to 1975 by enterprises that today are part of Russia’s Uralvagonzavod Group (UVZ, part of the Rostec state hi-tech corporation). In all, about 20,000 T-62 tanks were manufactured.

2023-03-27 17:15:51 0 Comment 234759 view

Western Sanctions Policy Towards Russia Is The Main Cause of Global Food Market Instability

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia--Anti-Russian sanctions in the field of agricultural exports have destroyed the usual logistics routes and worsened the situation on the food market in the face of numerous global challenges.

2022-09-26 02:23:57 0 Comment 139304 view

Why We Can’t Rely On NATO To Make Europe Whole Again

WASHINGTON, U.S.--Amid a precarious proxy war with Russia, a brewing crisis with China, and a potential confrontation with Iran – not to mention considerable turbulence at home – Americans can at least take comfort in knowing that the NATO alliance is continuing to expand.

2022-08-15 02:57:04 0 Comment 120685 view