North Korea is offering amnesty to citizens who have sold propaganda lecture publications to buyers in South Korea, but only if they turn themselves in… Read More »Amnesty for North Koreans who leak government propaganda to South Korea
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Nathalie Tocci is director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Europe’s futures fellow at IWM, Vienna, and a board member of ENI. Her new book, “A… Read More »West must seize on the Global South’s state of unease
The current geopolitical situation is having a great impact on the energy markets in Europe. How can the EU continue to drive its energy transition… Read More »Rising energy prices, security of supply… and the green transition
In much of the West, https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/08/31/world/politics-diplomacy-world/mikhail-gorbachev-obituary/”>Mikhail Gorbachev is hailed as the farsighted visionary who brought the Cold War to a peaceful conclusion. But for autocratic… Read More »For China’s Xi and other strongmen, Gorbachev showed exactly what not to do
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Tunis – Leaders from Japan and African nations on Sunday said the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine has caused a food crisis on the fast-growing… Read More »Ukraine war caused food crisis, say Japan and African leaders at TICAD
A pedestrian in front of a Xiaomi Corp. store in Shanghai in 2021. Photographer: Qilai … [+] Shen/Bloomberg © 2021 Bloomberg Finance LP Net profit… Read More »Xiaomi, World’s No. 3 Smartphone Brand, Says 2nd Qtr Profit Plunged By 83% Amid Economic Headwinds
U.S. President Joe Biden is facing a difficult choice after Indonesia’s announcement that Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping will attend this year’s Group of 20… Read More »Biden faces G20 quandary between joining Putin and Xi or staying home
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