Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at Samarkand on September 16 after the SCO Summit turned into a media scandal. The Western media zeroed in on six words culled out of context in the PM’s opening remarks — “today’s era is not of war” — to […]
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It’s Not Any Of The US’ Business What PM Modi Does At The SCO Summit
India has no reason to be concerned about the US’ reaction to Prime Minister Modi’s participation in this year’s SCO Summit in Samarkand, especially the optics of him “looking chummy” with the Russian and Chinese leaders like Bloomberg fearmongered might trigger that declining unipolar hegemon. Bloomberg headlined a piece on […]
The Significance Of The SCO’s Samarkand Summit
Observers have plenty to be optimistic about ahead of this week’s major multipolar event. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will hold its next summit in the ancient Uzbek city of Samarkand from 15-16 September, which will see the personal attendance of all the group’s leaders. This includes Chinese President Xi […]
Turning To The East
Russia is the land of the rising sun, said Russian President Vladimir Putin on September 5 during a meeting with activists of the environmental forum in Kamchatka. On the same day, the Russian government decided to withdraw from agreements with Japan on the procedure of mutual visits and facilitated visits […]
The Global Consequences Of South Asia’s Grand Strategic Reorientation
While it remains to be seen whether Pakistan will grotesquely transform from the “Zipper of Eurasia” into the “Faultline of Eurasia” like is feared, that scenario is still credible enough to seriously concern all stakeholders. South Asia’s Central Role In The Great Bifurcation The global systemic transition to multipolarity is […]
The Emperor Has No Clothes: US Strategy For Africa
The US government recently disclosed its latest strategy toward Sub-Saharan Africa. The document, while not showing surprises or changes from previous policy permutations, is eloquent on the US real priorities in the continent. For the US, its geopolitical agenda based on unipolar world hegemony is far more important that the issues that […]
Doing Business With Taliban Govt
The best part of the UN Security Council discussion Thursday regarding the situation in Afghanistan was the candid remarks by the Russian and Chinese ambassadors on the accountability of the Taliban government in Kabul for the crisis gripping that country today, just an year after the vacation of the NATO […]
Macron Insulted Africans’ Intelligence By Claiming That Multipolar Powers Manipulate Them
The shameless ethno-nationalist supremacy associated with his hateful remark will result in Africans doubling down on their anti-imperialist and Pan-Africanism activism since no self-respecting person would ever capitulate in the face of such blatantly racist pressure and thus voluntarily submit themselves to being dominated by their abuser. French President Macron […]
India’s Leadership Of The Global De-Dollarization Trend Will Accelerate Multipolarity
It’s indeed possible for India to independently defend its economic-financial interests vis a vis the US while still coordinating with it to a certain extent in deterring what its leadership regards as the credible scenario of China advancing its regional interests in a zero-sum way. So as not to have […]
U.S. Presses Japan To Cancel Constitution’s Peace-Clause. China And Japan Must Thus Finally Agree Now, To Avoid A War
The United States Government is pressing Japan’s Government to revise its 1947 U.S.-created Constitution so as to eliminate its clause (Article 9) that prevents Japan from invading any country. The clause asserts that: the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or […]
China Is Still Playing The Long Game On Taiwan
The tame ending of the saga of Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan leaves many intriguing loose ends, although the world is lucky that she didn’t choose to test the authenticity of the Chinese rhetoric. Speaking of authenticity, however, a good case can be made that it was President Biden and […]
Post-American World, Post-Ukrainian Geopolitics (III)
Part I, Part II Seventh. Washington’s anti-Russian policies under all administrations reflected the imperatives of this internal complex crisis. Thanks to the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the USSR, which created the illusion of a world without alternatives on the level of ideas and models of […]
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