Nepal formally complained in late August after China and India agreed to resume their border trade through the Lipulekh crossing. Newly ousted Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli also brought it up during his meeting with President Xi Jinping on...
Ukraine accused Russia of deliberately targeting the Cabinet of Ministers building in Kiev during large-scale strikes across the country on Sunday, which Russia denied, while RT cited earlier Ukrainian reports to suggest that the damage was actually caused by...
The Financial Times’ Brussels Bureau Chief Henry Foy prompted panic across Europe last week when he reported that Russian electronic warfare succeeded in jamming the GPS of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s plane right as she was...
Putin elaborated on his master plan for the Russian Arctic and Far East during his keynote speech at this year’s Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok last week. This piece will summarize what he shared and analyze it in the...
The Armenian and Pakistani Foreign Ministers signed a joint communique on the sidelines of the SCO Summit in Tianjin establishing diplomatic ties. Pakistan was the only country in the world that didn’t recognize Armenia out of solidarity with Azerbaijan...
Trump’s Eurasian grand strategy has sought to preemptively avert Russia’s potentially disproportionate dependence on China in order to avoid having its natural resources turbocharge the superpower trajectory of the US’ only systemic rival. In pursuit of this, the US...
The recent SCO Leaders’ Summit in Tianjin drew renewed attention to this organization, which began as a means for settling border disputes between China and some former Soviet Republics but then evolved into a hybrid security-economic group. Around two...
The Tianjin Declaration that emerged from this year’s SCO Leaders’ Summit in that namesake Chinese city included condemnation of the Pahalgam terrorist attack. Late June’s SCO Defense Ministers’ Summit ended without a joint statement due to India’s objection to...
The public assassination of leading Ukrainian fascist Andrey Parubiy has many pointing the finger at Russia and not without good reason. He was infamously implicated in the Maidan sniper provocation at the height of 2014’s Color Revolution, the Odessa...
Axios reported that Putin “mentioned China as one of the potential guarantors” of Ukraine’s security, which was followed by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov referencing spring 2022’s draft peace treaty that included China as one alongside the other permanent UNSC...
