By Mohammad Reza Moradi, General Director of Mehr News Agency’s Foreign Languages and International News Department In recent years, one of the most important developments in the global system has been the significant rapprochement between China and Saudi Arabia; a development that has not only shifted the traditional equations of the Middle East, but also has deeper roots in the ...

By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein A document like a country’s “National Security Strategy,” such as the one recently announced by the United States, cannot be based on fiction and deceit. In presenting the document, President Trump resorted to all sorts of falsehoods, clearly to convince the stupefied American public that “they are winning.” It is a foreign policy document geared toward ...

By Orçun Göktürk, PhD Candidate at UIBE in Beijing / China French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent visit to China coincided with a period of rising China–Japan tensions and a short-lived “ceasefire” in China–US relations following the Busan talks. It also unfolded in an atmosphere where both Beijing’s strategy of “flexible diplomacy” toward Europe and Europe’s squeezed position between Washington and ...

By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist The US recently published its new ‘National Security Strategy Document,’ which sets out its defense and foreign policy direction. Although the strategy document emphasizes the Trump administration’s global perspective and non-interventionist policies centered on ‘regional dominance’ and ‘the nation-state concept,’ the world is witnessing the almost complete opposite of these statements being implemented on the ...

As always, Türkiye had a packed agenda last week. Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan’s visit to Iran and the statements he made there topped the list. Pope Francis’ visit to Türkiye and his meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was another major headline. The visit of Kurdistan Regional Government President Masoud Barzani, linked to Türkiye’s ongoing “Terror-Free Türkiye” process also sparked ...

By Héctor Bernardo* – The false rhetoric of the fight against drug trafficking used by the US government and right-wing groups in the region collapses when a quick review is made of Washington’s partners linked to drug trafficking. Among them are Juan Orlando Hernández, Horacio Cartes, Álvaro Uribe Vélez, Felipe Calderón, Enrique Peña Nieto, Daniel Noboa, Guillermo Lasso, Keiko Fujimori, ...

Iraq has held parliamentary elections to fill all 329 seats in parliament. The day was marked by increased voter turnout, and the results indicate progress for forces sympathetic to the resistance axis. Years after the US occupation, Iraq still has a fragmented structure, which is reflected in the political system, says Yakup Aslan, a journalist specialized on West Asian politics. ...

By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein When Donald Trump was outlining his cabinet after being elected and before taking office, he made one decision: the neoconservatives who had caused him so many problems in his first administration would not have a place this time. Thus, he left out, among others, Mike Pompeo, Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, John Bolton, and Elliott Abrams, who ...

By Onur Sinan Güzaltan Ukraine has claimed responsibility for attacks on Russian tankers in Türkiye’s Exclusive Economic Zone in the Black Sea. Therefore, these attacks constitute an open violation of Türkiye’s sovereignty by Ukraine. The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs also issued a statement on this matter and condemned these attacks. Targets of attacks in the Black Sea These attacks ...

UWI author Yunus Soner provided an interview to Sputnik Türkiye on the recent US threats against and the reaction in Venezuela. Below we present the interview as published by Sputnik Türkiye here. Latin America is on the verge of a geopolitical tremor on a scale not seen in many years. The US’s increasing military and political pressure on Venezuela has ...