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Sabino Vaca Narvaja, who served as Argentina’s ambassador in Beijing from April 2021 to Dec. 10, 2023, has just completed a working trip to five Chinese cities, during which he discussed exciting plans for continued bilateral cooperation among academic, cultural and communication institutions, despite President Javier Milei’s insulting and offensive behavior toward China’s leaders. Notable was his meeting in Shanghai […]

“Peace through Development for Israel and Palestine and all of South-West Asia”, centered on the Oasis Plan, was the theme of the highly successful online conference organized by the Schiller Institute on April 13, with speakers from five different continents. The first panel, reported on in last week’s issue, focused on the political and diplomatic aspects of the crisis (cf. […]

In an emergency vote for President Biden’s supplemental war budget, the majority of the U.S. Congress demonstrated once again its delusion that maintaining the “Sole Superpower” military status of the U.S. is good for the country. The vote occurred after the $95 billion allocation for Ukraine ($61 billion), Israel and Taiwan had been bottled up by Speaker Mike Johnson for […]

On April 18, the UN Security Council held its vote on Palestine’s request to become a full member state in the United Nations. The overwhelming majority, 12 nations from all parts of the world (Algeria, China, Ecuador, France, Guyana, Japan, Korea, Malta, Mozambique, Russia, Sierra Leone and Slovenia) voted in favor. Two abstained, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. The United […]

Folker Hellmeyer, one of Germany’s most popular economists, warned in an April 17 interview with PrivatInvestor TV that the German economy is running into a wall, and that the crash will rapidly become non-linear. The world economy is witnessing a fragmentation, Hellmeyer explained, with the Global West decoupling from the Global South which, measured in purchase power parity, now represents […]

The “Neutrality Initiative”, launched by the “Pro Schweiz” group and the Swiss People’s Party (SPP), has filed a petition in favor of a national referendum to restore strict neutrality status for the country. The number of certified signatures (133,000 plus many more uncertified) gathered in a relatively short time period reflects the large support the initiative has found in the […]

All in all, despite the differing views on Ukraine, Taiwan and the South China Sea, Chinese media coverage of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit to Chongqing, Shanghai and Beijing one week ago was positive. The presence of so many German industry leaders was portrayed as beneficial for both sides, while Scholz’s statement in support of Chinese e-car exports to Europe […]

Russia has ambitious plans for the BRICS Plus in the course of its chairmanship of the group in 2024, as presented by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the April 16 meeting of the United Russia Party in Moscow. Efforts, he said, will be focused on three main areas: “politics and security, the economy and finance, and cultural and humanitarian contacts”. […]

The current danger of a war breaking out between Iran and Israel appears to be aimed at sabotaging, among other things, a major initiative to finally build a rail network linking the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean, that would involve Iran, Iraq, Syria, Türkiye, Saudi Arabia, and other regional players. On April 22, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made an […]

“We are organizing this Oasis Conference to inject a perspective of hope and show a way out of an otherwise desperate, extremely dangerous, and indeed, catastrophic situation in Southwest Asia.” With this forward-looking challenge, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Chairwoman of the international Schiller Institute, began her keynote speech to the Institute’s April 13 online conference devoted to the Oasis Plan, “The LaRouche […]