Troubling German trade figures. German exports declined in April by 24 percent month over month and 31.1 percent year over year – the largest monthly fall since the introduction of foreign trade statistics in 1950. Broken down by region, the results vary. Exports to eurozone countries – which total 26.4 billion euros, or a third […]
Halford Mackinder, one of the founding fathers of geopolitics, said that if the Heartland was unstable, the world was unstable. And since the Heartland...
Russia redirects exports. Russia’s Ministry of Energy instructed Russian oil companies to redirect a significant portion of oil products meant for export to the...
A longstanding struggle between the services of Iran’s armed forces spilled into the open this week after the government’s official news agency published an...
31 years after Tiananmen Square. Thursday is the 31st anniversary of the deadly crackdown in Tiananmen Square, when the military opened fire on thousands...
The U.S.-Philippine alliance revived. On Tuesday, Philippine Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin said Manila had suspended the termination of the Visiting Forces Agreement. While the...
India’s frictions with its neighbors are becoming more entwined. The Pakistani and Chinese governments on Tuesday finalized an agreement on implementation of the Kohala...
