By Serhat Latifoğlu In late 2024, China’s 30-year bond yield fell below Japan’s 30-year bond yield for the first time in history. This drop, which brought 30-year bond yields below 2%, was the result of China’s slower than expected growth and the Chinese Central Bank’s measures to revive the economy. Western media was quick to exaggerate and distort this. Comparing ...

By Mohammed Sabreen, Cairo / Egypt “The player in the “Game of Nations” is forced by the nature of his surroundings to move in the game that sometimes has nothing to do with winning. The permanent goal of the players in the Game of Nations is to continue the game because stopping it means inevitable war.” With these words, the ...

Donald Trump will take office as President on January 20. Even coming into the office, he made statements regarding Türkiye, Erdoğan and Syria. These remarks raise the question: What kind of policy will Trump pursue toward Türkiye? This question is particularly significant in the context of Syria which has been a big source of tension between the two countries. Of ...

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the Ukrainian army carried out an attack with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on a compressor station in the Kransnodar region that supplies natural gas to the TurkStream pipeline. The statement shared that the 9 UAVs used in the attack were destroyed by air defense systems and that the pipeline continued to operate normally. ...

The Armenian government has approved a draft law on starting the process of the country’s accession to the European Union. The decision was made at the Cabinet meeting on Thursday, 9 January, Armenia News reported. The document will now go to the country’s parliament for approval. According to the government’s justification, the approval of the initiative “will make the expectations ...

By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist Especially since the outbreak of the war between Russia and Ukraine, it is clear that the UN structure has completely lost its effectiveness in solving problems and ensuring peace in the world. The structure of the United Nations Security Council, which was shaped according to the results of the Second World War, has turned into ...

By Roman A. Atencio, Magister in Economics and International Trade and PhD student in World Economy at the Russian University of Peoples’ Friendship University – Patrice Lumumba. The recent statements by the President-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, that he will seek to regain control of the Canal if the fees that our country charges American ships for transiting ...

Last week in Türkiye, the process of talks with the imprisoned PKK terrorist organization’s leader Abdullah Öcalan, initiated by Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader and AKP’s coalition partner Devlet Bahçeli, continues. US’s elected president Donald Trump made statements about Türkiye’s role in Syria. Another important topic of the week was the new wave of price hikes coming with the new ...

Donald Trump will be sworn in as President on January 20th and officially take over the office. Russia’s view of Trump is a subject of debate. It is possible to come across positive views of Trump among Russian intellectuals. Economist/thinker Sergey Glazyev, who has been an economic advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin for many years, argues that Trump’s arrival ...

By Ali Rıza Taşdelen In the last four years, the struggle against neo-colonialism in Africa has continued to achieve significant successes. Coup plotters? While its roots go back further, a decisive turning point occurred in 2020 when a group of anti-imperialist revolutionary officers in Mali overthrew the pro-French government, shut down French military bases, and expelled their troops. This marked ...

By Micaela Ovelar, Caracas / Venezuela, January 8, 2025 This Friday, January 10, the swearing-in of the President elected on July 28, 2024, Nicolás Maduro Moros, heading to a third term during the period 2025-2031, is scheduled to take place. According to the Bolivarian Government, nothing will prevent that. The official swearing-in ceremony will take place in the National Assembly ...

By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein Two weeks before Donald Trump is going to be sworn in as President of the United States, I am going to venture to make some observations about the prospects of the new government, first regarding its foreign policy, especially after his arrogant, confrontational statements regarding Mexico, Panama, Venezuela and Denmark (for Greenland). In this regard, it ...