By Rhod Mackenzie
Iran decided to keep up with Turkey and, following the Turkish gas hub project, announced plans to create its own gas hub in the Persian Gulf with the participation of Russia, Turkmenistan and Qatar.
“We have the second largest gas reserves in the world, so we plan to create a...
By Alasdair Macleod
The increasing number of nations seeking to join BRICS brings geopolitics into the spotlight. At the time of writing, existing members, those who have applied to join and those expressing an interest total 36 nations, with over 60% of the world’s population and one-third of glo...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Iran's full-fledged membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will be decided next week.
During an online briefing on June 30, Lavrov said that in addition to Iran's joining the SCO, a memorandum on Belarus's oblig...
By Hu Xijin
The New York Times, citing a public opinion poll by the Roper Center, said Americans' views of China are starting to resemble their views of the Soviet Union decades ago. This has reinforced the hardline China policy adopted by the US government, and vice versa. The NYT article also ci...
India will host the 23rd Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization on July 4 in a virtual format, and on Friday, China's Foreign Ministry announced Chinese President Xi Jinping's attendance of the meeting via video link amid growing expectations for SCO member...
By Uriel Araujo,
Recently, influential US Senators Chris Van Hollen (Democrat) and Lindsey Graham (Republican) sent a letter to the US Senate Armed Services complaining about the fact that Israel is blocking the transfer of American US Iron Dome batteries to Ukraine. Meanwhile, in an interview wi...