While China, keen to ward off US sanctions as long as possible, is lagging, its RIC partners Iran and Russia are doing the legwork to break the west’s global financial grip.

A number of think tank scholars and former US officials question if the decision to join was a wise one

Every day, the American and European public is subjected to a barrage of information telling them what they should think about the events in Ukraine now moving into the 3rd month of conflict since Putin launched his military intervention on February 24th.

China at some point may dump its Pakistan investment and emphasize India ties, upending strategic calculations

As America and its allies move out, India, Turkey and China are moving in

WASHINGTON (AP) — The last time Russia invaded Ukraine, in 2014, outraged world leaders booted Russia out of the Group of Eight industrialized nations, which quickly rebranded itself the Group of Seven.

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has warned of Russia’s increasing “international isolation” in a statement on the closure of their Moscow center by the Russian Ministry of Justice on April 8.

Always nimble, the pro-war raconteur is again making arguments for preventative war, just more obliquely.

For Europe’s leading power, rebuilding the military marks a generational change of consciousness.

Here we are again, revving up on the borders of Ukraine. Probably should have learned something from Afghanistan.