Month: March 2023

The meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives to the EU of member states (COREPER), which was supposed to vote on the EU ban on internal combustion vehicles by 2035, was postponed to an indefinite date, after the Italian representative announced that Rome would veto the decision. Poland and Bulgaria joined the Italian position. Since the German government had already […]

Under the title “Exploring New Heights”, CGTN Think Tank and the Schiller Institute sponsored an exciting panel discussion on March 1. Co-hosts were Helga Zepp-LaRouche, chair of the SI, and Guan Xin, a CGTN anchorwoman. The two guests in Europe with Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche were Uwe Behrens, transport economist; and Wolfram Adolphi, journalist and political scientist, while five guests joined Guan […]

A new report was issued last week by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), a rabid anti-China think tank that tracks the leading countries in various fields of high-technology considered critical for future economic growth and military power. Of the 44 areas of research studied, the ASPI found that China takes the lead in 37, including space research, energy R&D, […]

The 7.8- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes which struck Türkiye and Syria Feb. 6, killing as many as 6,000 Syrians and more than 40,000 in Türkiye, has once again focused attention on the murderous intention of the economic and financial sanctions that the United States, Great Britain, and the European Union have imposed on the Syrian nation since 2019. To punish the […]

From the anti-NATO marches in Munich on Feb. 18 and the unprecedented rally in Washington one day later (cf. SAS 8/23), to the many demonstrations that took place throughout Europe on the following weekend, a powerful anti-war movement is building in the transatlantic world. The numbers were larger or smaller depending on the location, but what characterized all of the […]

As central banks signal further interest rate increases, the system signals that a boundary condition is being reached in both the stock and bond markets. In an analyst’s note, Morgan Stanley chief U.S. equity strategist, Mike Wilson, likened the current stock market increase to the “death zone” that mountain climbers experience when they reach an altitude so high they don’t […]

In spite of massive attacks and slanders in the media and by established political leaders (including in the Linke party), the “Uprising for Peace” rally at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on Feb. 25 saw a turnout of some 50,000 – the biggest such rally since the high time of the “peace movement” in the early 1980s. The approach taken by […]

From shooting down a Chinese weather balloon allegedly used for spying purposes to boosting arms sales to Taiwan and ordering Beijing not to provide lethal weapons to Russia, the Biden Administration’s threats against China have gone over the top. As a result, Beijing is dropping its traditional diplomatic reserve. On Feb. 20, just one day before releasing its Global Security […]

The more the West insists on imposing its “rules-based order” and war policy on the entire world, the faster resistance is growing, not only in the superpowers of China and Russia, but especially in what is known as the “Global South”. That reality can no longer be ignored, even by certain bulwarks of the western establishment. To give just a […]

China released on Feb. 24 its proposal for solving the conflict in Ukraine, which had been announced by top diplomat Wang Yi at the Munich Security Conference and discussed with various leaders during his trip to Europe (cf. SAS 8/23). The short 12-point document, titled China’s Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis, presents a serious alternative to […]