Permanent Court of Arbitration: not UN agency – “nothing to do with UN” On 14 Jul 2022 CGTN reported: China on Wednesday reiterated its stance on the so-called ruling of an arbitral tribunal on the South China Sea in 2016. “The so-called award of the South China Sea arbitration seriously violates international law, including the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. It is illegal, null, and void,” […]
๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ณ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฏ๐ ๐ฅ๐๐๐๐ถ๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ด๐ป ๐ ๐ถ๐ป๐ถ๐๐๐ฟ๐ ๐ฆ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ธ๐ฒ๐๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ต๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ฎ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง: Two of the BRICS member states were invited to the G7 summit as guests. What does in mean for our interests? Does it mean that the West is beginning to acknowledge BRICS, or was it done to counteract the famous Chinese strategy, Belt and Road? ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ต๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ฎ: It is a complex question. I think it is necessary to break down […]
The following is reproduced from Think China, 29 Jun 2022. The views expressed are those of the author. Former Singaporean journalist Goh Choon Kang observes that whether it is the discussions at the recently concluded Shangri-La Dialogue or the larger machinations of geopolitics, it cannot be denied that having China in the picture changes many things, and perhaps even provides countries with more strategic options. After a two-year hiatus due […]
Source: Monthly Review Online, June 23, 2022. https://mronline.org/2022/06/23/is-the-west-finally-realizing-that-russia-will-win-the-war-in-ukraine/ This article is one in a series of articles written by Mark Rolofsonย covering the US proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.ย While this civil war in Ukraine actually began 8 years ago in 2014, the Western media narrative has portrayed this conflict as an unprovoked invasion by Russia that began on February 24, 2022.ย The 8 year civil war in the Donbass […]
By Brian Toohey, June 24, 2022. Pearls and Irritations: https://johnmenadue.com/the-united-states-the-pacific-bully/ The US conducted 105 nuclear tests in the Pacific, mainly in the Marshall islands, between 1946 and 1962. Image: Wikipedia The US dominates the Pacific Islands to an extent China can never hope to achieve. With Australiaโs support, the US is now engaged in an arms build-up in its Pacific territories and de-facto colonies in a little known boost to its […]
China’s growing role in Indonesia’s economy is now becoming a crucial source of growth for the two nations. China has emerged as the third largest source of investment in Indonsesia, just behind Singapore and Hong Kong SAR. The combined Hong Kong and Chinese mainland investments accounted for 25 % of the total overesas invbestment in Indonesia in 2021. This only behind Singapore which accounts for 30.2 % of overesas investment, […]
A joint study by Columbia University (in US) and Oxford University (in UK) refutes claims of Chinese “debt-trap diplomacy” in Africa, and highlights that debt owed to European bondholders is a bigger contributor to debt. In fact: Chinese entities account for only 8% (US$78 billion) of sub-Saharan Africa’s government debt (US$954 billion) and 18% of total external debt, of which โ was owed to bilateral official partners, โ to international […]
“Since the beginning of the 2018 US-China trade war, Western countries have sought to decouple from China in terms of economic, technological, and people-to-people exchanges. According to Cheng Yawen, the recent Russian-Ukrainian conflict marks the end of the US-led globalization wave. Facing the possibility of full decoupling by the West in the future, China urgently needs to make a new choice in its diplomatic and strategic priorities to downgrade the […]
Doubts regarding the Belt and Road Initiative are both counterfactual and counterproductive Published 2022/06/10 Sholto Byrnesย writing in the United Arab Emirates newspaper The National looks at at the nature of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), revisiting an August 2020 report by the UK’s leading international affairs think tank Chatham House, titledย Debunking the Myth of ‘Debt-trap Diplomacy’. Contrary to Western view, the Belt and Road Initiative is not some form […]
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