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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

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

Since early October, amidst the military conflict between the Palestinian Hamas movement and Israel, Iran has been at the forefront of many conversations. While it is true that Tehran has connections with Hamas, it would be impracticable to reduce Iran's connection with its entir...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The global order,focused on the interests of the Anglo-Saxon nations, is progressively collapsing, and this phenomenon is now irreversible. Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, made this statement at a CIS gathering with colleagues in...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Amid the energy crisis, France is keen to maintain its nuclear energy capability and requires imported uranium. This is because of the situation with imports from Niger will could be terminated, analyts confirm that Kazakhstan provide an increase the supply.
In early November, K...

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...