By Rhod Mackenzie
On Friday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Beijing. During the meeting, Wang highlighted that while there has been an increase in positive interactions in the bilateral relations, there are also negative factors that are...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Europeans don't change: there bad habits or provocattions as Ton the eve of Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to France at the beginning of May to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations, Brussels officials have prepared an unpleasant surpri...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The past year is unlikely to be a good one for Russia's energy sector. Under the influence of sanctions and other negative circumstances, the Russian Federation's oil and gas revenues fell by almost a quarter (23.9%) in 2023 compared to the previous year, according to Reuters.
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Washington will continue to impose sanctions against the Russian energy sector and related infrastructure, according to a statement released by US Deputy Energy Secretary Geoffrey Pyatt on Tuesday.
“We will continue to tighten the screws and continue to impose sanctions on a wide range of companies...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The US decision to seize frozen Russian assets will be advisory in nature, with the president able to reject it. This is due to the fact that the American financial elite does not want to jeopardise the power of the “No. 1 economy” over a few million dollars.
The bill was approv...
By Paulo Nogueira Batista.
The realisation of grand projects always implies imagination and persistence in overcoming all sorts of barriers and all kinds of resistance. Let us hope that the BRICS will confirm expectations entertained by the Global South and rise to the challenge of providing const...