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By Andrey Sushentsov.

The United States perceives peace, security, and stability as a given that happens on its own. According to Washington, no significant efforts are required to maintain it, and when there is a need, the United States itself initiates a military conflict. This is a big differen...

By Rhod Mackenzie

If Argentina severs ties with Brazil and China, as proclaimed by the ultra-libertarian Javier Milei, who was elected as the country's president last Sunday, this would amount to the gravest error in Argentine diplomatic history.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry's official spokespers...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Argentina has no plans to to take up its invitation to join BRICS on January 1, this was confirmed by Diana Mondino, a senior economic adviser to the country's president-elect, Javier Milei, in an interview with Sputnik Brazil on Monday.

The invitation to join BRICS was approve...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The meeting between US President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping was deciphered like an Economist magazine's cover, using the accompanying images, gestures, intonations, and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's uneasy reactions, who was pained every time his boss spoke...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The discussions between the Chinese and American leaders during the APEC summit in San Francisco created a buzz, though the meeting itself was unremarkable, and the statements made afterwards did not affect US-China relations. The competition between the world's top two economie...

By Rhod Mackenzie

India and China took the lion's share of Russian oil exports that dropped out of the European market. However, other buyers also contribute to the Russian budget: Brazil, Saudi Arabia, the UAE. All of them increased purchases of oil and petroleum products from Russia. Analysts st...