Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
China steps up, a new era has dawned in world politics
The agreement announced on Friday in Beijing regarding the normalisation of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran and the reopening of their embassies is a historic event. It goes way beyond an issue of Saudi-Iranian relations. China’s mediation signifies that we are witnessing a profound shift of the tectonic plates in the...
Intensification of fighting for Avdiivka. Day 382 of the war
Russian forces continue to push back the defenders along the M03 highway towards Sloviansk. Fighting continues for control of the village of Orikhovo-Vasylivka, which lies to the south of it, blocking the road to the Donets-Donbas canal (the Russians crossed it south-west of Bakhmut in previous months). The Russians are believed to have...
EU-Mercosur Agreement: Partnership for sustainability instead of unilateralism
After approximately 20 years of negotiations, the EU and the Mercosur countries agreed on a joint trade agreement in 2019 – however, it has not yet been concluded. The objection of the countries blocking the agreement was that the Brazilian president at the time, Jair Bolsonaro, did not put a stop to the large-scale slash-and-burn clearances in...
Peacemaker China Makes History In Middle East
With successful brokering by China, Saudi Arabia and Iran have set aside years of enmity and proxy war to restore relations. Suddenly the United States seems irrelevant in the Middle East. Also today: Cracks developing in US/Ukraine alliance. Finally: Medical schools go “woke” – what it means for your health. Watch today’s...
House Democrats Attack Messengers in ‘Politicization of Government’ Hearing
I often joke that I survived Washington because I had low expectations, but last week’s hearing of the House Weaponization of the Federal Government subcommittee would have tested the lowest of my low expectations. The purpose of the subcommittee is to look into the politicization of US government agencies and its effect on our civil...
Fifteenth attack on Ukrainian infrastructure. Day 379 of the war
On 9 March, the Russians launched a further (according to statistics from Ukraine’s main transmission system operator Ukrenerho, it was the fifteenth) attack on energy and industrial infrastructure in Kyiv and 11 Ukrainian oblasts (Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Lviv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia and...
Russia shows its frustration – 15 attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure
Russia has carried out a total of 15 large-scale missile attacks on energy facilities across Ukraine since October 2022. The most recent one, on 9 March, targeted infrastructure such as electricity transmission and district heating in eight regions, including Kyiv, Kharkiv and the Zaporizhzhia, Zhytomyr and Odesa oblasts. In total, the invaders...
Nearly half of Finnish companies have encountered barriers to international trade
As many as 41% of Finnish companies have experienced trade barriers in their international operations in recent years. Most of the examined trade barriers between 2019 and 2022 occurred in countries outside the EU, especially in Russia, the United States and China. However, according to a study conducted by ETLA Economic Research for the Finnish...
Articles On: Communist Party, Loyalty, Hong Kong, Ukraine, and Digital Yuan
Articles On: Communist Party, Loyalty, Hong Kong, Ukraine, and Digital Yuan LeAnn Sun, 03/12/2023 – 04:00 AUDIO – Was Li Keqiang a quiet reformer or a Communist Party apparatchik? by David Rennie and Alice Su via The Economist Podcast Drum Tower on March 7, 2023 China Premier Li Keqiang bows out as Xi loyalists take reins via Associated...
Israel’s Energy Market and the War in Ukraine
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,186, March 12, 2023 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Russian invasion of Ukraine has riled the energy markets of Europe and created opportunities for Israel’s energy sector that contain both risks and rewards. These opportunities include: 1) … …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic...
