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Daily Memo: Azerbaijani Demands for Armenia, US Warns for Israel

New condition. Establishing peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia would require changes to the Armenian constitution, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said at a meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic States. Aliyev explained that it would be ā€œimpossibleā€ to conclude a peace agreement between the two while the Armenian constitution, which he said includes territorial claims […]

India’s Watershed Election

India’s 2024 general elections have shaken the trajectory the planet’s most populous nation has been on for nearly three decades. Right-wing Hindu nationalism, which...

Daily Memo: Uproar in Turkey, Drills in Syria

Turkish backlash. Clashes broke out in the Turkish parliament between lawmakers from the governing AKP party and the pro-Kurdish DEM party following the arrest...

Remembering D-Day

Overlooking Omaha Beach is a cemetery in which the Americans who died on D-Day were buried. To walk through this graveyard is to walk...

Daily Memo: China Pushes Its Plan for Ukraine

International buy-in?Ā Russia and Ukraine have affirmed most of the contents of China’s ā€œsix-point consensusā€ on how to resolve the Ukraine war, Chinese Foreign Minister...

What the June 2 Elections Say About Mexico

ā€œThe most boring election in Mexican history.ā€ That’s how a prominent Mexican political activist described the country’s June 2 elections. Judging by the U.S....

Daily Memo: Putin Meets Sudanese Officials, Moscow Accelerates Weapons Manufacturing

Russia's Africa connections. A delegation of Sudanese representatives, including the country’s deputy head of the Transitional Sovereignty Council and ministers of foreign affairs, finance...

Russia and China, Nukes and Alliances

Last week, Moscow revived an oft-repeated threat to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Their use, of course, requires a few important things. They must...

Daily Memo: State of Russian Manufacturing, Turkish Forces in Syria

Russian business. Russia’s manufacturing purchasing managers’ index rose to 54.4 points in May, up slightly from 54.3 in April. (A value above 50 points...

The Reality of Russo-Chinese Relations

There’s a building in a certain district of Moscow that has adapted to geopolitical trends better than most others. Until 2020, it was car...

A New Front in the US-China Trade War

In mid-May, U.S. President Joe Biden unveiled a proposal for new tariffs on a variety of Chinese imports. This year, the U.S. will raise...

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