Asia
On the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the PRC and Japan
In the history of relations between the two now leading Asian powers, the PRC and Japan, the date of September 29 marks a very remarkable event. On this day exactly 50 years ago, Prime Ministers Zhou Enlai and Kakuei Tanaka signed the nine-point Joint Communiqué. The first one stated...
The visit of a US carrier strike group to the ROK and its aftermath
On September 23, for the first time since October 2017, a US Navy carrier strike group led by the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan arrived in South Korea’s Port of Busan. The strike group consisted of three ships: USS Ronald Reagan, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier; USS Chancellorsville, a Ticonderoga-class missile...
Iraq: some light in the “political clouds”
Almost a year after Iraq’s last parliamentary elections in October 2021, no government has yet been formed. There is a fierce power struggle to form a government between the Sadrist movement, led by populist Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, and the Coordination Framework (CF) alliance, which includes a number of Shiite parties largely united in their...
