Posted by seumasach on April 5, 2019
The tariff battle has left the US bloodied more so than China, a fact that cannot be lost on Trump
Trump will declare victory no doubt, but the real question remains: will he begin to open up the US to Chinese investment, to buy into the Belt and Road Initiative?
David P.Goldman
4th April, 2019
China’s stock market performance continues without taking a breath, and the next round of trade news should keep the momentum going.
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Posted by seumasach on April 4, 2019
M.K.Bhadrakumar
2nd April, 2019
The reported arrival of Chinese military personnel in Venezuela last weekend is undoubtedly a major event in world politics.
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Posted by seumasach on April 4, 2019
Federico Pieraccini
3rd April, 2019
The multipolar transformation that is occurring across the Eurasian continent confirms the industrial and diplomatic cooperation between China and the European continent in spite of strong opposition from the United States.
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Posted by seumasach on February 25, 2019
21st february, 201
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has turned the corner on relations with the United States. Her speech at the Munich Security Conference should be considered Germany’s divorce filing from the U.S.-led post-WWII institutional order.
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Posted by seumasach on February 25, 2019
Patrick Lawrence
19th february, 2019
What a job Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo did in Europe last week. If the objective was to worsen an already critical trans–Atlantic rift and further isolate the U.S., they could not have returned to Washington with a better result.
Posted in Battle for Europe | Tagged: end of Atlantic alliance, independent Europe | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on January 15, 2019
Coinciding as it does with appeals for a hard Brexit from senior security state people, Williamson confirms Brexit as a neo-imperial project gone wrong.
30th december, 2018
UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has been accused of living in the nineteenth century after promising to build new military bases around the world following Brexit.
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Posted by seumasach on January 15, 2019
Explaining why they oppose the new relationship with the EU in the agreement, they write: “Buried in this Agreement is the offer of a ‘new, deep and special relationship’ with the EU in defence, security and intelligence which cuts across the three fundamentals of our national security policy: membership of NATO, our close bilateral defence and intelligence relationship with the USA and the Five Eyes intelligence alliance.”
The geopolitical stakes in Brexit couldn’t be put more starkly. However, short of Trump’s removal from office, they appear totally unrealistic.
10th January, 2019
A former top spook and an ex-defence chief have taken the unprecedented step of urging Tory constituency bosses to order their MP to vote against Theresa May’s Brexit deal.
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Posted by seumasach on January 15, 2019
Alastair Crooke
14th January, 2019
The Middle East is metamorphosing. New fault-lines are emerging, yet Trump’s foreign policy ‘hawks’ still try to stage ‘old movies’ in a new ‘theatre’.
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Posted by seumasach on January 4, 2019
Ford stressed that it’s about time to restore normal relations with Damascus, stating that “we will witness the return of the British and French ambassadors to Damascus possibly next year”.
31st December, 2018
TEHRAN (FNA)- Washington is not powerful enough to block restoration of Arab states’ diplomatic relations with Syria, former Britain’s Ambassador to Syria Peter Ford said as Arab states have rushed to resume ties with Damascus.
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Posted by seumasach on January 1, 2019
Gareth Porter
28th december, 2018
The mainstream media has attacked President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria as impulsive, blindsiding his own national security team. But detailed, published accounts of the policy process over the course of the year tell a very different story. They show that senior national security officials and self-interested institutions have been playing a complicated political game for months aimed at keeping Trump from wavering on our indefinite presence on the ground in Syria.
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Posted by seumasach on December 28, 2018
M.K.Bhadrakumar
28th December, 2018
The Syrian government forces have entered the northern town of Manbij on the Turkish border earlier today. The Syrian military command announced in Damascus that the operation stemmed from the commitment to “impose sovereignty to each inch of Syrian territories and in response to calls of locals of Manbij city.”
Posted in Syria, Uncategorized | Tagged: defeat of western imperialism in Syria and Iraq, syrian kurds, Victory in Syria! | Leave a Comment »
