Germany After Merkel
The next German government, irrespective of the political colors it will combine, ought to be characterized by a determination to draw on Merkel’s legacy and adapt to the changing environment.
The next German government, irrespective of the political colors it will combine, ought to be characterized by a determination to draw on Merkel’s legacy and adapt to the changing environment.
The United States is jumping into a “new Cold War,” using Australia as its military ally of choice, coupled with the United Kingdom at a distance.
The SCO group has sent out a signal of unity in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, cross-border terrorism, unilateralism, trade protectionism and with a promise of enhancing SCO solidarity and building a better post-COVID region.
In order to fully address a humanitarian crisis, China holds that both the symptoms and the root causes, namely turbulence and poverty, should be addressed and an environment essential to development needs to be created.
Only when the fate of the nation is placed in the hands of the Libyan people, backed by foreign aid with no political strings attached, can it achieve any real form of reconciliation.
The U.S.-led transformation has failed to accelerate the reform of Middle East countries and instead led to a resurgence of radical religions in the region and undermined the process of political modernization.
The world would be safer and more stable today if the US did what it falsely accuses China of not doing and that is engaging in the rules-based regional and international order together with China, Russia and their neighbors in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, ASEAN, UN and the like.
The strategic importance of this region determines that the U.S. will not really withdraw. The retrenchment will be a long-term process of trial and error, during which policy confusions, contradictions, repetitions, and so on, are inevitable.
The catastrophe in Afghanistan is the inevitable outcome of the long-term exertion of hegemony and power politics by the U.S. in the world.
If the reason for America’s failure stems from democracy itself, and the demand to place national self-interest above the rights of others, then that would suggest that democracy could endanger the collective well-being of the global community.
In order for think tanks to have something to write about and hence attract money, they need to have ‘problems’ in the world and propose ‘solutions’ America’s leaders can engage in.
The essence of the policy failure is that the US should not have invaded Afghanistan in the first place.