About Yoon Suk-Yeol’s trip to Hiroshima and other meetings with European leaders. Part One. Key accomplishments
From May 19 to 21, President Yoon Suk-yeol attended the G7 Summit in Hiroshima. Yoon Suk-yeol is the fourth South Korean leader to attend the G7 leaders’ meeting; this time, he was invited to the summit along with the leaders of Australia, Brazil, the Comoros, the Cook Islands, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Upon his return home, Yoon Suk-yeol met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on May 21 and with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen…
The West increasingly isolates itself
Following the demise of the Soviet Union, the United States felt that it would always be the lone superpower and that its hegemony would not be challenged. The failure of American policy in Iraq, followed by a chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, did not undercut Washington’s claim to global dominance. When Russia demanded an end to NATO’s eastward expansion, even though previous US leaders had assured Moscow that Eastern Europe would not be included in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the USA, confident in its impunity, simply ignored Russia’s proposals. When Moscow was compelled to initiate…
The G7 countries demonstrated a Cold War mentality in their attacks on China
The Chinese Foreign Ministry protested to Tokyo over the G7 summit’s vilification of Beijing and interference in Chinese internal affairs. The G7 summit, which took place in Hiroshima, Japan, from May 19 to 21, was not without controversy. The leaders of the so-called most industrialized countries have once again demonstrated their exclusivity and pretention to judge everyone and everything. The communiqué produced at the summit drew “much” attention to China; in particular, the G7 countries expressed worry over Taiwan, the South China Sea, human rights, and the “non-market practices” of the PRC…
G7 countries in search of an alternative to China’s One Belt, One Road megaproject
As a result of the latest summit of the G7 countries in Hiroshima, the US, Canada, the UK and the EU adopted yet another, 11th to be precise, package of anti-Russian sanctions. The package includes more than 90 companies from all over the world, which, according to Brussels, allegedly violated the restrictive measures and continue supplying Russia with sanctioned goods (including companies in Armenia, Iran, UAE, Syria and others). At the same time, eight out…
The problematic location of the latest G7 conference
On May 19, the three-day, most recent G7 Summit started in Hiroshima. During its 10 thematic sessions, problems of both a global scale and a rather specific plan, which are of particular interest to the G7 countries at the current stage of the “Great World Game,” were considered. However, among the G7 participants, there are increasing discrepancies, as successfully illustrated by the Chinese publication Global Times, regarding assessments and approaches to solving almost all of the problems mentioned. This was reflected in the course, as well as the results of this event, which require special…
How Europe and the US Aren’t on the Same Page
Since November 2022, a number of important European leaders – Olaf Scholz of Germany (November 2022), Pedro Sanchez of Spain (March 2023), Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission, and Emmanuel Macron of France – have visited China in what can be considered a policy move that clearly contradicts concerted US attempts at “do-coupling” from China. When Macron visited China, he was accompanied by a business delegation of more than 60 executives from French enterprises, including Airbus, with many seeking deep cooperation with China…
A Peek Into the Gaping Black Hole of U.S. Policy Under Biden
Slowly, surely, almost systematically, the United States and its allies edge into a geostrategic sinkhole from which there can be no return. The spotlight for most observers is on the Ukraine situation, but natural signs of the decline of the Western hegemony lie elsewhere. In the most recent news, Russia’s Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigu, Shanghai Cooperation Organization met his counterpart Rajnath Singh Shanghai Cooperation Organization. According to Shoigu, the U.S. and the rest of the Western allies aim to strategically defeat Russia and become a threat to China to maintain a decades-old…
Yoon Suk-yeol’s Visit to Japan
Yoon Suk-yeol, the current president of South Korea, has consistently expressed a desire to strengthen bilateral ties with Japan, in contrast to his predecessor, Moon Jae-in. Yoon has said that both nations should abide by the spirit of the Japan–South Korea Joint Declaration of 1998 issued by Japanese Prime Minister Keizō Obuchi and South Korean President Kim Dae-jung…
Foreign ministers from the world’s leading countries met in India at various locations
In the first days of March India was the center of international politics. The formal occasion for the appearance on its territory of the forty foreign ministers was one of the calendar events of the Forum G20, that is the twenty leading economies in the world which together account for 85% of world GDP. Another 20 ministers arrived…
G7 Geniuses Shoot Both Feet with Oil Price Cap
Okay, the message has become crystal clear now. The United States does not want Germany and the rest of Europe to become richer and prosperous anymore, powered by cheap Russian gas. It’s a thing, you know? Getting at the competition. Strangely, ironically, or one might even say comically, India will now become far richer and a lot more prosperous, powered...
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the NATO and G7 Summits
The density of foreign policy activities by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida cannot but attract attention. At the end of April, he received German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Tokyo. Immediately after that, he went on a week-long tour to three countries in Southeast Asia and a subsequent flight to Europe. There, he held talks with...
On the Results of the G7 Ministerial Meeting
From May 3 to 5 this year in London there was a ministerial meeting of the G7 forum member countries, which, rather out of inertia are still sometimes called the Group of Seven Industrialized Nations. Such a designation was to a certain extent justified in the first two or three decades after its creation in the mid-1970s. The main motive for the formation of the G7 was...