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FT: Is France on the road to a Sixth Republic?

France was in turmoil even before Emmanuel Macron’s unilateral decision last week to raise the minimum general retirement age from 62 to 64, after...

Confrontation between US and Chinese ships in South China Sea

A US Navy destroyer sailed near the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea and sparked yet another confrontation between the US and...

Seymour Hersh: The cover-up

This is a new comment of American journalist Seymour Hersh: “It’s been six weeks since I published a report, based on anonymous sourcing, naming...

ABC news: Xi signals strength in Russia-China alliance

Chinese President Xi Jinping departed Moscow on Wednesday after two days of highly symbolic meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which the two...

WP: The real lesson from the showy Xi-Putin meeting

Pentagon strategists have always divided the world into East and West, with U.S. regional forces under European Command or Indo-Pacific Command. But looking at...

Kishore Mahbubani: “A Russian defeat would not be in the interests of the Global South”

“Today Western diplomacy is clumsy. The Cambridge’s Bennett Institute for Public Policy survey argues that America’s tendency to divide the world into friends and...

Greece: New report urges better protection for human trafficking victims

In its second report on Greece, the Council of Europe’s Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) acknowledges positive steps...

Pompeo: The Biden administration allowed the Chinese and Russians to come together

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Fox News weighs in on the Biden administration's response to the meeting between Presidents Xi and Putin: - To...

TIME: Will China create a better world?

China is everywhere in global politics. China is “ubiquitous,” a retired Senior Colonel Zhou Bo of China’s PLA told in a conversation with TIME...

The strategic situation in the Persian Gulf region has dramatically changed

The China-brokered Saudi-Iranian normalisation of diplomatic relations. What has happened is an epochal event, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar, Indian Ambassador and prominent international observer. Henry Kissinger drew...

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