Moscow summit. Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived on Monday in Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Ahead of the visit, the Chinese Communist Party’s newspaper, the People’s Daily, published an article by Putin on relations between the two countries. It noted that trade between Russia and China totaled $185 billion at the end […]
The geopolitical competition over the Democratic Republic of Congo is heating up. One of the poorest countries on earth, Congo has problems that are...
Fighting inflation. The European Central Bank on Thursday hiked interest rates by half a percentage point. The main rate increased to 3.5 percent, the...
Different version of events. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Wednesday held talks by phone to discuss...
The Arab world’s hostility to the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine exacerbated the existential fears of many Israelis, developed over centuries of...
Editor’s note: By definition, geopolitics moves slowly. It’s a drawn-out explanation for the long-term trajectory of nations, one that all too often gets lost...
Long-awaited stats. Russia’s Federal Customs Service has finally published trade data for 2022, after roughly a year of not releasing such figures. By value,...
