By Anna Koroleva
This year, the yuan has become the leader in foreign currency payments among Russian businessmen. The reason for this lies both in the growth of trade with China, and in the intermediate use of the yuan for subsequent conversion into dollars or euros. And in terms of growth in use...
By Jorge Heine
The unwillingness of many leading countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to stand with NATO over the war in Ukraine has brought to the fore once again the term “Global South.”
“Why does so much of the Global South support Russia?” inquired one recent headline; “Ukraine courts...
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...