STRATEGIC ALERT Service

The National Security Strategy of the United States 2025 sent waves of panic through European capitals and Brussels, which are harshly, but not unjustly, criticized in it. There are many good objections one could raise on the paper, but the most important aspect, strategically, is that it represents a complete break with the post-war “unipolar world” order, which has brought […]

Justin Yifu Lin, a prominent Chinese economist who served as the World Bank’s first Chief Economist from a developing country and is currently member of China’s State Council, forecast a bursting of the AI bubble in a speech given at the Fudan Chief Economists Forum in Shanghai on Nov. 23. “In my view, during the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030), […]

In view of a coming global financial crisis that only the blind could fail to see, The LaRouche Organization (TLO) and the Schiller Institute have launched a campaign in the States to prevent bank bailouts and bail-ins in order to protect households and restore the government capacity for productive credit through a new banking regulation, modeled on the 1933 Glass-Steagall […]

Two votes in the German parliament on Dec. 5 showed just how difficult it is for Chancellor Merz’s government to scrape together majorities for crucial policy projects. His bill on the reinstatement of military service passed with 323 votes, with 272 against, while the bill on “pension stabilization” was only approved by 319 MPs — although Merz’s nominal majority in […]

During the visit of Russian President Putin to New Delhi, on Dec. 3-5, he and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the two Eurasian giants would significantly increase their economic cooperation by the year 2030, with agreements in many strategic areas, including nuclear energy, space technologies, Russian industrial investments, joint work on the International North South Transportation Corridor, the […]

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s recent statements about a Chinese intervention in Taiwan being a security issue for Japan provoked a very strong response from Beijing, prompting the Japanese Foreign Ministry to clarify that the country’s policy toward China has not changed, which implies that it still endorses the “one China policy”. This, however, is far from a retraction of […]

Thanks to the response of readers to our call for financial support, we have now come closer to ending the year with a balanced budget. There is still a sizeable gap to be filled, but we are better off than a few weeks ago. Your help shows that you appreciate our unique capability to think strategically and to understand “in […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a five-hour meeting with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow on Dec. 2 over the U.S. proposals to end the war in Ukraine. Preliminary reports are that both sides expressed optimism in reaching an agreement, although what that would entail must still be negotiated. For the Russian side, the most important point concerns territorial issues, […]

Over the course of the past weeks’ talks over a peace plan for Ukraine, European leaders have counted on U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio within the Trump administration to defend their position and that of Ukraine’s. The Europeans almost thought they had succeeded after the negotiations in Geneva on Nov. 23, led by Rubio and then head of the […]

China and South Africa have jointly launched an “Initiative on Cooperation Supporting Modernization in Africa”, which recognizes modernization as “a common pursuit and an inalienable right of all countries of the world”. The project was launched by Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on the sidelines of the Nov. 22-23 G20 summit in South Africa. (According […]