Arquivos de 4 jun 2020

America should end the war but keep up the pressure.

Why wealthy elites come to regret their bargains with authoritarians.

Even on the sidelines, Ankara faces blowback.

India’s decision to settle payments for Iranian oil in Chinese yuan marks a subtle yet potentially consequential shift in the evolving architecture of global energy trade and finance. While the transaction may appear technical, its implications extend well beyond bilateral trade, touching on sanctions regimes, currency politics, and the long-term trajectory of the dollar-centred international […]

In an era of global changes, China-Russia joint Eurasian historical research is a strategic necessity, Peng Bo writes.

China and Russia are not merely deploying parallel soft power practices and instruments, but are gradually converging toward a hybrid configuration that may be described as “strategic soft power.” This emerging form of combined influence integrates infrastructure, media, key resources connectivity, and institutional platforms into a unified geopolitical architecture. Analysis of the Strait of Hormuz […]