Japan’s ‘awakening’: The war in Ukraine and a Sino-Russian alliance

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the return of brutal aggression as a means of border changing means rejecting of the global order based on international law. As a consequence, the security architecture is changing not only in Europe but also in the Indo-Pacific. For Japan, the war in Ukraine –...

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When Russia invaded Ukraine, Albright published an essay in the New York Times where she shared her impressions of the talks with Putin. In her opinion, the president of Russia has previously done a lot to strengthen his country, weaken and divide the West and spread many lies around the...

Currently, the main goal of the West in imposing restrictions on Russia is to cut it off from budget revenues so that it cannot wage war. Russia is making huge profits from the sale of hydrocarbons, and as long as these profits continue to flow, the Kremlin will have the...

The Three Sea Initiative is a huge conglomerate of countries. It is not a coherent region – it has 100 million people and economic, political situation of these countries is different. So those countries may look at the war in Ukraine with slightly different eyes. Poland and Romania are key...

How is Japan’s foreign policy and its relationship with Europe changing as a consequence of the war in Ukraine?What is China’s vision of the world and its foreign policy in the Xi Jinping era?What are prospects for a Russo-Chinese alliance? What actions have been taken by the Joe Biden administration...

The American and Western European elites have ignored Putin’s warnings since 2007, reassuring themselves that they were acting for domestic political purposes and that Putin should not be annoyed or provoked. And they ignored the warnings of Poland and other Central European countries. Even after Russia’s annexation of Crimea and...

Warsaw was overjoyed, which was understandable in a way. But it was also a bit deceptive or even dangerous because Trump’s benevolence was a rather unreliable thing, simply because it was just benevolence, as opposed to a strategy. Biden, on the other hand, has a strategy. Many Germans found Poland’s...

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The aggression against Ukraine stems from Putin’s speech as a re-founder czar. For at least fifteen years Putin has been theorizing the reconstruction of a great Slavic power dominated by Russia and based on order, hierarchy, illiberal ideology and contempt for the corrupt West. His rhetoric feeds on very different...

European peace and security we took for granted has been demolished. We are witnessing a war in the heart of Europe, and Ukraine is being murdered before our very eyes. We can see, however, that, contrary to Kremlin’s expectations, the West is united. The European Union and its Allies have...

The invasion of Ukraine, a sovereign and independent country, by Russia has shaken the international community. It is unlike the NATO and American forces moving into Iraq, Syria or Afghanistan, where dictators and fundamentalists were torturing their own people  – writes Dr. D.K. Giri in comment “Russian invasion of Ukraine”....

In December 1971, Emir of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan – founding father of the UAE – brought together the ruling families of Dubai, Sharjah, Fujairah, Ajman, and Om Al-Qaïwaïn to form a political union. A federal state was created, to which the seventh emirate, Ras al-Khaimah, joined...

Voices are becoming loud to regulate social media and other digital communication platforms. Under pressure, Facebook, Twitter, Google, and others are putting in place measures to minimize misuse of their platforms, but the White House of the United States and some other influencers believe that self-regulation by social media organizations...

The coronavirus pandemic and ensuing economic crisis have weakened democracy and made societies much more vulnerable to the spread of a ‘digital pollution’ – false information on the Internet. The rapidly growing challenges have been exacerbated by the political and social polarization that can be seen everywhere – from the...

Taiwan is a territory recognized by only 14 countries and Beijing sees it as a “renegade” province that “must be united” with mainland China. Taiwan’s existence depends on the support of the United States, for which Taiwan is “the largest aircraft carrier in the Western Pacific.” But Formosa, as the...