How COVID- 19 weakened American leadership
Unlike Hollywood movies where Americans have the lead in saving the world, the crisis of the corona virus pandemic has shown the opposite. The first major test showed that the American health care system...
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Livid Russia expels 20 Czechs after blast blamed on Skripal suspects
Moscow expelled 20 Czech diplomats on Sunday in a confrontation over Czech allegations that two Russian spies accused of a nerve agent poisoning in Britain in 2018 were behind an earlier explosion at a...
New Zealand says ‘uncomfortable’ with expanding Five Eyes
New Zealand said it is “uncomfortable” with expanding the role of the Five Eyes, a post-war intelligence grouping which also includes the United States, Britain, Australia and Canada, recently criticised by China. China is...
Official Russian military build-up near Ukraine numbers more than 100,000 troops, EU says
More than 100,000 Russian troops have massed on Ukraine’s border and in annexed Crimea, the office of the EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell said after EU foreign ministers were briefed by Ukraine’s foreign minister....
Biden, Suga poised to present united front on Taiwan as China steps up pressure
U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will present a united front on Taiwan, China’s most sensitive territorial issue, in a summit meeting on Friday, according to a senior U.S. administration...
Biden to welcome Japan’s Suga as first guest and key ally in China strategy
President Joe Biden welcomes Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Friday as the first foreign leader to visit his White House, underscoring Tokyo’s central role in the U.S. strategy to counter the challenge of...
Biden administration is facing “Either Democracy and Human Rights or National Interests”
The US President Joe Biden has explicitly declared, in Munich security conference, the worldwide democratization as an indispensable objective of his foreign policy. Fulfilment of national interest is undoubtedly an inherent part of all...
US envoy assures Taiwan relations are ‘stronger than ever’
Relations between Taiwan and the United States are “stronger than ever”, an envoy for President Joe Biden said Thursday during a visit to the democratic island as it faces increasingly hostile moves by China....
Biden, Suga to send signal to assertive China at U.S.-Japan summit
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and U.S. President Joe Biden will highlight Tokyo’s central role in Washington’s strategy to counter the challenge of an increasingly assertive China at a summit on Friday. While that...
Adieu Afghanistan
Ever since the quest to control Afghanistan began almost two centuries ago, the country has effectively stripped Britain, USSR and off late The United States Of America of the myth of invincibility. The Brits...
