Category: Geopolitics

French journalist Darius Rochebin seemed genuinely surprised when Democratic Republic of the Congo President Félix Tshisekedi stated in a recent interview that he and other African leaders prefer to work with Russia and China over Western democracies. Rochebin, one of francophone ...

New Zealand's foreign minister on Friday criticized China's bid for an increased security presence in the Pacific Islands, warning against actions that could "destabilize" or undermine regional security. "China has a long-standing presence in the Pacific, but we are seriously concerned about increased engagement ...

Yaroslav Lissovolik, a former senior IMF official and ex-chief economist at Deutsche Bank, visited Beijing last month, where he met with senior Chinese corporate, government, and academic leaders to get a pulse on key geopolitical issues. The well-known Russian analyst, who ...

By Adam Koi On April 1, 2024, an airstrike against the Iranian embassy complex in Damascus, Syria, destroyed the building housing the Iranian consulate and killed sixteen people, including high-ranking officers of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Although no country officially ...

China's Special Envoy for the Middle East Zhai Jun briefed Arab and Persian Gulf diplomats on Wednesday about Beijing's latest positions in the region.  Zhai reportedly addressed the recent talks between representatives from the rival Palestinian groups Fatah and Hamas that ...

China edged out the United States in a survey of African public opinion as to which country is the world's most influential power. China jumped by six points while the U.S. fell 3% in the latest poll conducted by Gallup in 36 ...

A landslide parliamentary election victory for the Maldives' pro-China president clears the way for him to redraw the physical and geopolitical map of his strategically-located Indian Ocean archipelago in Beijing's favor, diplomats and analysts say. President Mohamed Muizzu's party, the People's ...

By Innocent Batsani-Ncube When Sitiveni Rabuka was elected Fiji's Prime Minister after a very close parliamentary vote in December 2022,  expectations were high — especially in Australia and other Western capitals — that his government would make good on his election campaign commitment to ...

The U.S. ambassador to Australia, Caroline Kennedy, rallied to the defense of Aussie mining companies who she said were "under assault" from Chinese rivals that exploit labor and the environment. Kennedy made the remarks during a keynote address at the Paydirt ...

Ever since the war in Gaza began soon after Hamas' terrorist assault in southern Israel on October 7th, Israeli stakeholders have expressed varying degrees of frustration with the Chinese response — or, more accurately, the lack of a balanced Chinese reaction. Even though Chinese ...

Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan issued a sober warning in Manila Tuesday about the devastating consequences that a war in the South China Sea between the Philippines and China would have on Southeast Asia and across Asia. “The moment you have ...

The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed legislation this week that aims to limit China's purchases of Iranian oil to sanction Tehran for last weekend's missile attack against Israel. The Iran-China Energy Sanctions Act of 2023 calls for secondary sanctions against Iran ...