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By Timur Fomenko

The former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, one of the oldest active statesmen in the world at 100, made a visit to Beijing and met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping earlier this month. Although Kissinger’s time in office is controversial in many respects, not least due to alle...

By Zhao Huasheng.

All the major powers are active in Central Asia, including China, Russia, the United States, Europe, India and Japan. This would not be a problem for the Central Asian countries if the major powers were on good terms, but the reality is that the relationship between the major pow...

By Wang Yee

China's export controls on gallium and germanium, two niche materials key to making semiconductors and other high-tech products, are set to take effect on Tuesday. Observers anticipate that this "first shot" may hit entities from countries that have cracked down on China, given that th...

By Rhod Mackenzie

On the first day of July, a unilateral reduction in Saudi Arabia's (KSA) oil production by 1 million barrels per day began to take effect. Now the negative consequences of this voluntary decision of Riyadh on the Saudi economy are becoming more and more clear. This was immediatel...

By Vedica Singh

The BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), which includes the world’s largest emerging economies, has been a driving force in restructuring the global economic landscape. Recent talk of BRICS expansion raises serious questions about its impact on the balance...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Following the approval of Iran as a full-fledged member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a political advisor to Iranian President says that being a member of BRICS will be the next step in Iran's foreign policy.

"Based on the doctrine of neighborhood and converge...