“The age of engagement with Russia is over,” UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss declared during a Wednesday night speech at a dinner in Brussels, wherein she urged her counterparts in the US-led military alliance to adopt “a new approach to security in Europe based on resilience, defense and deterrence.” She went …
Read More »Who says China’s hardline diplomacy is doomed to fail? It’s working on the EU
In a recent op-ed, I was critical of the glorification of the European Parliament by the mainstream media in pushing the misleading narrative that Europe was choosing Taiwan over China, and that Beijing’s so-called “bullying” over the issue was burning its bridges with the EU. This has been a broader …
Read More »Denmark’s former hardline immigration minister on trial in rarely used court over separating asylum-seeker couples
Stojberg appeared before the court on Thursday as the special judicial body convened for the first time in 26 years. The court, which only tries former or current government members, is expected to decide the former minister’s fate and rule on whether she violated the European Convention on Human Rights. …
Read More »Hardline Israeli politicians & Palestinian groups blast top-level bilateral meeting as ‘betrayal’ of respective countries
In the first such talks in over a decade, Gantz and Abbas met on Sunday evening in the West Bank city of Ramallah to discuss a range of issues. But right-wing Israeli politicians expressed anger with Gantz over meeting with Abbas, who they reportedly accused of being a “Holocaust denier …
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