Asia
Washington’s Use and Abuse of the Philippines Takes Next Step
The United States has taken yet another step toward shaping the Southeast Asian archipelago nation of the Philippines into an Ukraine-style proxy with which to encircle and contain China, this time in the form of a $500 million military assistance package for Manila.
China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan: a new page in the history of Eurasian corridors
On June 6, 2024, in Beijing, the governments of Uzbekistan, China and Kyrgyzstan signed a cooperation agreement on the joint promotion of the Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan-China railway project. The document establishes mechanisms for financing construction, project implementation, as well as a number of other issues, including those on which the three previously did not share a common, fixed position. What will this railway give Eurasia, for whom will it become a challenge and for whom an opportunity?
On the Summer Plenum of the Central Committee of the Workers Party of Korea
From June 28 to July 1, 2024, the DPRK held “extended session of the 10th Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, contributing to the successful implementation of the priorities and all tasks of the Party and state policy for 2024.” The plenary meeting summarized the results of work for the first half of the year and discussed “a number of next important issues in the continued rise of the phase of comprehensive rejuvenation of socialism in line with the Korean model.”
