Pipeline politics prominent at SCO summit

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Negotiations to build a new pipeline designed to transport annually 50 billion cubic meters of gas from Russia to China through Mongolia are expected to close soon after the three countries’ leaders met in Uzbekistan. Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Mongolian President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh held a face-to-face meeting in Samarkand on […]

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Russia plays up ‘Ukro-Nazism’ to hold seized lands

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Even as the Ukrainian military in September 2022 retook some territory lost to the Russian invasion, Moscow has been quietly fortifying the land it holds, which it intends to keep. Russian forces still control about 20% of Ukraine, and the Kremlin states it is not prepared to stop fighting. The approach President Vladimir Putin has […]

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US Senate picks up where Pelosi left off on Taiwan

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WASHINGTON – On September 14, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) approved the Taiwan Policy Act of 2022, a measure co-sponsored by hawkish committee chairman Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC). If passed by the full Congress and signed into law by the Biden administration, the landmark act would signal yet […]

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The amazing and unstoppable collapsing yen

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TOKYO – There’s something surreal about the debate at Bank of Japan (BOJ) headquarters over whether to jump into markets to support the yen. Japan’s central bank faces the most intense pressure in more than two decades to intervene in currency trading, but unlike previous pressure campaigns, the BOJ isn’t being prodded to weaken the yen […]

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Iran’s new Fath 360 looks and acts like a HIMARS

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Iran tested this month its indigenously-produced Fath 360 satellite-guided ballistic missile during military exercises, an apparent bid to match America’s High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) that has been deployed with lethal success in Ukraine. Fars News reported last week that Iran tested its Fath 360 short-range surface-to-surface missile and performed combined arms operations with […]

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An Uzbek vision for a united Eurasia

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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit is historic in more than one sense. The fact that the meeting is Chinese premier Xi Jinping’s first trip abroad since 2020 conveys some of its significance. It is also the first time that the group of Eurasian leaders will have met in person since the start of Russia’s […]

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How the ‘startup nation’ develops its workforce

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A recent op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal, “ Higher Male impotence Can Redisdcover its Purpose, ” reviews US colleges’ weak points in training students for market needs, saying they ” will need to become intentional about the education these are providing and about the particular students for whom they are providing. ” In this regard there is a lot to […]

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Anti-invasion campaigner: Time to step on the gas

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A prominent Ukrainian activist has slammed the “absurd” actions of the EU whereby a partial embargo on Russian oil has done little to stem the tide of aggression that has devastated her homeland. With war continuing to rage six months after Russian tanks rolled into the Donbas region, Svitlana Romanko, director of Razom We Stand, […]

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Grand Alliance blueprint for India’s 2024 elections

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In politics, an organized minority is a political majority. Jesse JaCKSON, AMERICAN POLITICAL ACTIVIST According to an old proverb, it is extremely simple to break a piece of wood but much harder to break a bundle constructed of them. With the 2024 parliamentary election firmly in its sights, key opposition parties across India are appearing […]

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US-China at a weaponized breaking point over Taiwan

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China’ s government has reiterated its determination to realize national reunification along with Taiwan after mass media reports said the United States was considering introduction a sanctions bundle against China more than its treatment of the self-governing island. Based on a Reuters survey citing sources acquainted with the discussions, the Biden administration is currently mulling a series of sanctions […]

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