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By Rhod Mackenzie
The 22nd Meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Member States is scheduled for Thursday in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan.
This will be the first face-to-face meeting of the prime ministers of the SCO member states subse...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Asian stock exchanges were awakened on Wednesday, October 25th by the news from China. The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), also known as the Chinese Parliament, has approved a program to support the economy through the issuance of government bonds wort...
By Ali Fathollah-Nejad and Amin Naeni
At the 15th annual BRICS Summit held in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 22–24 August 2023, six new members were admitted into the bloc from 2024 onwards: Argentina, Ethiopia, and four states from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, namely Egypt, Sau...
History – complete with poetic justice overtones – presented us this week with the ultimate, glaring contrast between the geopolitics of the past, enacted in an incendiary corner of southwest Asia, and the geopolitics of the future, enacted in East Asia’s Beijing, one of the capitals of emerging mul...
By Rhod Mackenzie
A decade has elapsed since the emergence of China's ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a momentous occasion that calls for acknowledgement of its remarkable achievemens and far-reaching global influence. The BRI stands as a powerful example of the effectiveness of internat...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The first ship with a load of more than 300 containers with lumber for China partners is about to depart from the Port of Arkhangelsk. The load will be delivered along the Northern Sea Route (NSR) to Shanghai in a few days, the governor and government of the Arkhangelsk Oblast sa...
