Against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic, confrontation between China and the US has grown increasingly intense. In this regard, Washington’s wild accusations blaming China for the outbreak will definitely continue, as the US tries to facilitate the withdrawal of production from China to other countries, such as India. Western media outlets claim there is serious danger of Chinese “aggression” ...

Recently, the S-400 Air Defense Systems Turkey ordered from Russia have become a hot topic of discussion once again. Allegations of postponement or even a total cancellation of the activation of these S-400s have been put up on the agenda, potentially in response to the serious crisis the purchase caused between the United States and Turkey. Some publications have claimed ...

The Israeli Foreign Ministry confirmed that the Chinese Ambassador to Israel Du Wei was found dead on the morning of May 17 at his home in Tel Aviv. The forensic team that examined the cause of death found that he died in a dream from sudden cardiac arrest on the night of Sunday. However, sending the body to Beijing has ...

BY TÜLİN UYGUR / STOCKHOLM There has been a boost in internal and external criticism in Sweden as a result of the government’s ‘herd immunity’ strategy. The Swedish experiment is ongoing, but the results are already coming in, and things don’t look good. On January 31, 2020, Sweden diagnosed its first coronavirus case, and immediately decided to follow a different path ...

NATO’s support for the GNA On May 16, the Prime-Minister of the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) Fayez Al-Sarraj held a telephone conversation with the general secretary of NATO Jens Stoltenberg. Nato’s support for the GNA brings a new actor to the Libyan conflict. It’s worth noting that this is a rare expression of support for the government in ...

A new Israeli government has been created at last, albeit mostly made up of the old one: the country’s leadership is currently split between Likud’s Benjamin Netanyahu and The Blue and White’s Benny Gantz, a government sure to have its points of strength as well as serious weaknesses. Above all it came as a compromise to avert a fourth general election, ...

The article titled “Proposals for normalization in Turkish-Egyptian relations” by our columnist Mohamed Sabreen, Managing Editor for Al-Ahram Newspaper, has drawn quite a lot of attention within Turkish political circles. The possibility of a rehabilitation of Ankara and Cairo relations, which have been trending downwards since the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi in 2013, have been widely discussed. Aydinlik, one of ...

Military aggravation On May 5 in the disputed area near Pangong Tso in the Ladakh region of India, there were clashes between Chinese and Indian troops. The Hindustan Times reports that the clash that occurred last Saturday involved hundreds of troops on both sides. The Indian air force has intensified sorties in the region. Two Indian Su-30MKI were spotted on ...

Against the backdrop of wide-ranging efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, conspiracy theories are proving almost as infectious on the internet, many of which suggest that a cabal of global elites are using the situation to strengthen their control over the population. One of the ways which they allegedly plan to accomplish this is microchipping – inserting ...

Marx and Engels’ renowned Communist Party Manifesto (Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) begins with some very impressive sentences: ‘A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.” This statement was made 172 years ...