Tag Archives: International News

December, 2022

• 24 December

  NATIONALISM IS THE IDEOLOGY OF OUR AGE

  

  NATIONALISM IS THE IDEOLOGY OF OUR AGE At the very moment, the world needs to work together to address global problems that cannot be resolved without global solutions, it is being pulled apart not just by conflicts but also by a rising protectionism. And while it is not difficult to …
• 23 December

  Managing the Troubled Sino-US Relationship

  

  Managing the Troubled Sino-US Relationship On November 14, a day before the G20 summit on the Indonesian island of Bali, China’s President Xi Jinping and US President, Joe Biden Jr. had a historic in-person meeting wherein the two presidents exchanged views on issues of strategic importance in China-US relations, and …
• 16 December

  Hydrogen Economy

  

  Hydrogen Economy Researchers and engineers around the globe are developing and refining ways to generate, store, transport and distribute clean, fossil-free energy. One of the most promising approaches, dubbed the Hydrogen Economy, relies on hydrogen to handle these tasks. Hydrogen is not only a clean substitute for oil, gas and …
• 12 December

  COP27 Our Planet is still in the emergency room

  

  COP27 Our Planet is still in the emergency room Climate change is a global crisis that does not discriminate among races, adhere to borders or separate the rich from the poor. Nations worldwide are coping with increasingly intense natural disasters that have taken thousands of lives this year alone and …

November, 2022

• 29 November

  Vaccine Apartheid

  

  Vaccine Apartheid As Covid-19 affected everyone differently, it changed a lot the way we conduct our lives. One thing it taught everyone was: equitable access to Covid-19 vaccine is essential for global efforts toward recovery. In the beginning, people around the world waited impatiently for the vaccines against the deadly …
• 29 November

  The US- Pacific Island Country Summit

  

  The US- Pacific Island Country Summit During the past few months, the Pacific region has received a torrent of attention from the governments of the United States and China. When China concluded a security deal with the Solomon Islands in March this year, it raised many eyebrows in the White …
• 28 November

  The Emerging International Order

  

  The Emerging International Order Few recent meetings had been as highly anticipated as the meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. This meeting brought the leaders of two countries where Chinese …
• 28 November

  Russia’s Annexation Move

  

  Russia’s Annexation Move A tried-and-tested charade? Russian President Vladimir Putin has formally signed a treaty annexing four Ukrainian regions into the Russian Federation. The Russian president announced, at a ceremony in Moscow’s Red Square, that the incorporation of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson, in the south and east of Ukraine, …
• 28 November

  Nord Stream Leaks

  

  Nord Stream Leaks On 26 September, leaks were discovered in the underwater Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines, located near Denmark and Sweden. Both pipelines are owned by Russia and were built to transport natural gas from Russia to Germany through the Baltic Sea. Western officials have linked the …
• 28 November

  Biden Administration’s National Security Strategy 2022

  

  Biden Administration’s National Security Strategy 2022 Long live the competition! The White House released, on October 12, its long-awaited National Security Strategy (NSS), which US President Joe Biden described in the introduction as “a 360-degree strategy grounded in the world as it is today, laying out the future we seek, …