The German government has permitted Ukraine the use of German weapons against Russian territory. This caused a debate not limited to Germany. Many voices fear an escalation of the conflict. One of them is Thomas Fasbender, the geopolitics editor of the German daily newspaper Berliner Zeitung. The newspaper is not pro-Russian. In a commentary in the same media, Alexander Dubowy ...
A stormy chain of events in recent days, with the latest being Biden’s decision to allow the use of US weapons for strikes inside Russia, has come to confirm our worst fears. The human species is, as Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University said recently in an interview, closer to nuclear annihilation than at any other time in history. The ...
Several readers have written to me, asking whether a third world war is imminent and inevitable. The dilemma established with the beginning of the nuclear age after the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 has always been present. But today, it has been brought to the forefront of public concern of citizens of all ...
Historians describe the 1789 French Revolution as a “rupture”. The political, economic, and cultural upheaval that occurred in France following the Storming of the Bastille, which shook the world, is described as a “rupture”, a radical break from the established order. Today, we are in the midst of a significant global rupture process. Chinese President Xi Jinping, in his meeting ...
By Orçun Göktürk/ Beijing, China Russian leader Putin was the last guest of honor at the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square, the heart of Beijing. In France during Xi’s European tour, Macron and von der Leyen said “use your influence on Moscow and stop Russian aggression”, to which Xi responded by calling Putin a “sincere comrade”. “No-Limits ...
UWI author, historian and political scientist Mehmet Perinçek evaluated the meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin on May 16. Exceptionally close How do you evaluate the meeting between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping in Beijing in general? Recently, there has been an exceptionally close relationship between China and Russia. After the presidential election, Xi Jinping ...
In 2023, the People’s Republic of China purchased 91% of the oil produced by Iran. Anxious with that, US President Biden is working on passing a law to impose sanctions on China for its oil purchases from Iran. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Iran has transformed into a construction site. What we see is an extraordinary development in the economy. In ...
By Orçun Göktürk/ Beijing, China Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Europe for the first time in 5 years. Xi’s visit to France, Serbia and Hungary from May 5 to 10 occurred in the shadow of the Ukraine war. Coming on the heels of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit to China last month, the visit is seen as a defining moment ...
By Jörg Kronauer Is the debate about nuclear armament in the EU moving into the next round? There are some indications that this is the case. Last week, Poland’s President Andrzej Duda declared that his country was prepared to station US nuclear weapons on its territory. On Friday evening, his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron said that France was offering to ...
Konstantin Kurylev, is a doctor of history, head of the Department of Theory and History of International Relations at the Patrice Lumumba Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia and director of the Centre for the Study of Post-Soviet Countries. Kurylev has given an expert commentary to the United World International. The issue in question: The Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braže’s statement ...