Politics
Vilnius Summit: “A Stronger and Expanded NATO Makes for a More Dangerous World!”
As I was recently departing Batumi, Georgia, on the Black Sea, the announcement was made, “Please Passengers, the train is about ready to leave the station, so please leave the train”, in English. Of course, something was lost in translation. However, the same could be said about the status of Ukraine in the wake of its aspirations for fast-tracked NATO membership—and how it and some NATO members want to overlook the requirements for membership and its own Charter.It is clear that NATO is being a proxy-to-a-proxy, and due to believing in its own rhetoric it has backed itself into a corner…
Comments on the replacement of South Korea’s Unification Minister
On June 29, 2023, South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol replaced the Minister of Unification and other key members of his cabinet. The new minister, responsible for relations between the two Koreas is Kim Yung-ho, a professor of political science and diplomacy at Sungshin Women’s University. The new heads of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (ACRC) and the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) are Kim Hong-il and Lee Dong-kwan, respectively. The former is a lawyer and the former head of the Busan High Prosecutor’s Office, and the latter was previously…
On some aspects of the latest SCO summit
On July 4, the 22nd summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) since its founding in 2001 took place in New Delhi via video conference. Following is a list of the participating countries in the order that their heads of state signed the final “Declaration,” which was adopted at the start of the event: India, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan. They were joined by Iran, which was one of the main results of this summit. In the author’s opinion, its significance is rather conditioned by the context of the current stage…
