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Implications of Xi-Biden Summit

Amid rising tensions around the world, a meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden, in November 2023, attracted considerable attention from around the globe. The meeting between the two leaders occurred on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in San Francisco. The two leaders are facing tough times at home. Therefore, this summit proved lucrative for both of them as it helped them save their face at home. President Xi is struggling in domestic politics due to the slow economic recovery after the Covid-19 pandemic…

Abbas Hashemite

Europe: new developments in Palestinian politics

The world’s media have increasingly printed articles about a number of European countries that have begun to speak out more boldly against Israel’s policies and its bloody massacre of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip. The willingness to criticise Israeli policy and its leadership led by Benjamin Netanyahu, notes the Swiss newspaper Blick, seems to be taking root in an increasing number of European countries. In stark contrast to France, Germany and Britain, which, under heavy US pressure, openly supported Israel by repeating its accusations that Hamas is a “terrorist” organisation, other European governments…

Viktor Mikhin

Tajikistan and Iran – a new phase in their relationship

Tajikistan established diplomatic relations with Iran, with which has close cultural and ethnic links, despite the lack of a common border, at the very beginning of its existence as an independent state,– on January 9, 1992, when Iran became the first country to recognize the sovereignty of the new republic. Since there have been frequent bilateral meetings at the highest level, including talks between the presidents of the two countries: the Tajik president has traveled to Iran 14 times, while Iranian presidents have visited Dushanbe 13 times. In the late 2000s and early 2010s…

Boris Kushhov

ISIL* instead of Al-Qaeda* as a global franchise of international terrorism

Madi Khalis Maalouf

Confronting Colonial Legacies

Taut Bataut

Iran will not be targeted by the US

Alexandr Svaranc

Washington’s Obsession with Containing China Continues

Brian Berletic

Is the inter-Korean military agreement short-lived?

Konstantin Asmolov

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