The Chinese are keen to invest in new terminals, docks, yards, logistics platforms and industrial areas in the northern Italian port, given its deeper integration into EU rail networks than Piraeus, the […]
Trieste aims to be China’s main port in Europe
Massive trial run ahead of HK-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge opening
Xi Jinping or Li Keqiang may open the new bridge and drive the new route to pay a symbolic visit to Hong Kong The countdown has begun for the long-awaited inauguration of […]
Vietnam reaches for a homegrown tech revolution
Communist planners and private players have prioritized development of indigenous social media and computing platforms to supplant Facebook and Google By David Hutt, @davidhuttjourno Nguyen Manh Hung has been acting Minister of […]
Trump’s misguided policies will displace the dollar
By Jeffrey D Sachs Back in 1965, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, then France’s minister of finance, famously called the benefits that the United States reaped from the dollar’s role as the world’s main […]
Greater Eurasia coming together in the Russian Far East
The Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok has become a crucial part of strategic integration between China, Russia and other countries in northeast Asia, a graduation assimilation set to transform the current world […]
World’s First Ultra-Cheap Printable Solar Panels Launched in Australia
By McKinley Corbley An inexpensive new kind of solar power has just been launched in Australia and it could signal the start of a groundbreaking new market for renewable energy. Professor Paul […]
Leapfrogging: How China caught up to Silicon Valley
By George Koo An upcoming book on artificial intelligence makes the startling contention that in just the last three years, China has caught up to Silicon Valley in AI. And, no, Mr […]
Putin’s visit to Merkel makes the US nervous
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This article is co-written by Ahmed Ashfaque Shahbaz and Khalid Ibn Muneer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hVfqtPdq0g President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin has made an official state visit to Germany…
Yanis Varoufakis: Marx predicted our present crisis – and points the way out
The Communist Manifesto foresaw the predatory and polarised global capitalism of the 21st century. But Marx and Engels also showed us that we have the power to create a better world. By Yanis […]
China-India rapprochement makes sense
By Ken Moak India made a U-turn on its relations with China in April when Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Chinese President Xi Jinping to reset ties. He met with Xi […]
Riding on Qatari wings, multipolarity arrives in the Middle East
The unscheduled arrival of Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, Qatar’s emir, in the Turkish capital Ankara throws a new light on regional links By M.K. Bhadrakumar Trust Turkey’s Recep Erdogan to have had […]
From Baltic Sea to Black Sea, Russia aims for a win-win
A major summit featuring Germany, Russia, France and Turkey is on the way – call it an expanded Eurovision By Pepe Escobar When Russian President Vladimir Putin, fresh from his star turn […]
New Sri Lankan port may be a key link between India and China
Chinese-funded Colombo Port City likely to boost Sino-Indian relations, with promotional campaigns to woo Indian investors already under way By Munza Mushtaq With Sri Lanka enjoying new-found importance as a key element […]
Russia looks like a bargain
Despite sanctions, the country is in no serious economic trouble, and its oil stocks look attractive By David P. Goldman The Russian ruble fell sharply in overnight trading after the announcement of […]
Caspian Deal Highlights Shift in Azerbaijan
TOM LUONGO As the US/Turkish relationship deteriorates it is having spillover effects around the region. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s continued defiance of US’s demands have placed Turkey in the cross-hairs of […]
US-Turkish alliance reaches the point of no return
The sense of indignation among Turks should not be underestimated, which makes this an exceptional rupture By M.K. Bhadrakumar The Turkish lira fell 22% on Friday before recovering to 17% on the […]
Taliban crosses the Rubicon with Tashkent meeting
Against the backdrop of strengthening Afghan-Uzbek ties, the Taliban pays a visit to Tashkent By M.K. Bhadrakumar The Taliban, against the backdrop of tightening Uzbek-Afghan relations, last week paid a landmark visit […]
All hands on deck: the Caspian sails towards Eurasia integration
The five states surrounding the sea – Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan – have reached difficult compromises on sovereign and exclusive rights as well as freedom of navigation By Pepe Escobar […]
China plans another multibillion-dollar spending spree
Beijing announces plans to boost infrastructure investment despite debt crackdown and escalating trade tensions with the US By Gordon Watts It appears the best way to avoid a debt trap is to […]
Explaining Turkey’s interest in BRICS
By Altay Atli Recent summit of the leaders of the BRICS countries held in South Africa had a number of guests from non-member countries, evidence for the grouping’s conscious efforts to create […]
How BRICS Plus clashes with the US economic war on Iran
Rhetorical war has far-reaching consequences, including a potential economic slump via the disruption of global oil supplies By Pepe Escobar The key take away from the BRICS summit in Johannesburg is that […]
China builds a wall of BRICS to help counter US trade war barrier
The bloc has now morphed into a key political and economic organization fueled by China’s global expansion drive By Gordon Watts Only the Chinese could turn an acronym into a trading bloc. […]
Imran Khan’s Greatest Test
Neil Clark The first time I saw Imran Khan he was a young student playing cricket (very well), for Oxford in the University Parks in the 1970s. The next, around forty years […]
What’s going to happen when Assad wins the war in Syria?
By Patrick Lawrence Given the unexpected pace of events in recent weeks, the end of Syria’s seven-year agony appears to be very near. It is now all but certain that Bashar al-Assad’s […]
