China
02/06/2019
Uighur genocide in China amid the Muslim world’s silence
According to a United Nations Human Rights Council meeting in early November 2018, Chinese authorities have rounded up around one million Muslims in the so-called “re-education” camps and have transformed the East Turkestan (Xinjiang province) to an open-air detention center.
11/27/2018
China: the moral superiority of the new hegemon
China is poised to become the world’s new superpower. Today, it is the second most powerful economy in the world and according to analysts and economists, it will become the first in the coming decade.
10/08/2018
China’s debt-trap diplomacy; a threat to the developing world
Analysts who follow global geopolitical trends frequently come across the phrase: “the 21st century belongs to China”. To lend credibility to the claim, they often mention China’s $1 trillion “one belt, one road” initiative. Through this huge initiative, China is supporting infrastructureprojects in strategically-located developing countries while extending loans for those projects.
09/28/2018
China and Venezuela; An Emerging Axis of Resistance?
It has been a couple weeks since the introduction of fundamental changes in the Venezuelan economy. It is pretty clear that things are improving steadily but surely in Venezuela when one compares the economic situation of a year ago, or even 2 months ago, to the situation today.
08/30/2018
Sino-Iranian Energy Relations in light of new sanctions
Energy, mainly from oil exports, is one the main foundations on which Sino-Iranian relations are built. China’s growing economy needs energy from reliable sources, and Iran’s huge oil and natural gas reserves go a long way towards covering the surplus in demand. By 2017, the bilateral volume of trade amounted to around $37.2 billion – massively in China’s favor.
