The 20th Central committee of the Communist Party held its forth plenary session between October 20th-24th 2025 during which a new 5-year plan (2026-2031) was adopted. While it might be tempting to dismiss China’s five-year plan as a domestic affair, this plan will among other things provide the scaffolding for China’s foreign policy over the next 5-years. In […]
Putin revealed Russia’s move to deepen cooperation in the nuclear industry with countries of the Global South, within the BRICS framework, while speaking at the Russian Energy Week. This is a good development for us in the Global South, since it is apparent that nuclear energy will become one of the key structural pillars of […]
Saturday October 25th will mark fifty four years since the passing of Resolution 2758 by the UN General Assembly. Given the popularity with which it was adopted, and the solidarity that it has continued to garner among countries worldwide, one would have hoped that all concerned actors would have conceded to its legitimacy. Unfortunately, that is […]
For centuries, humankind has fought wars over oil, land and faith. The wars of today and perhaps the future will be about who controls the jewels of the earth, those rare earth minerals that power our age. They are in our chips, batteries, satellites, and missiles. For many countries, these elements power the very systems […]
If a nuclear war is ever to happen between the U.S. and China, Taiwan is likely to be the flashpoint of conflict. China’s differences with Taiwan date back to the Chinese Civil War (1927-1949), when the defeated Kuomintang (KMT) government fled to Taiwan in 1949, following the victory of Mao Zedong’s CCP over Chiang Kai-shek’s […]
As wars rage in Europe and the Middle East, and as global institutions crack under increased pressure and scrutiny, the global political order is withering into a desert, barren of trust, fairness and new ideas. In this dry landscape, China’s GGI has emerged, an oasis of reform and rejuvenation that may yet save the global […]
The Lobito Corridor is a rail and infrastructure project spanning 1,300 km from the port of Lobito in Angola to the mining regions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Zambia. It was originally developed in 1902 as the Benguela Railway, and its construction was completed in 1931. It was primarily engineered to connect […]
The deal. One that has been of global interest, but not the deal the world has for decades sought – a permanent solution. War is cruel. The ultimate price has until 11th October, 2025, been paid. Death has been the final price paid for the decades Israel and Palestine have had a stand off. And […]
On October 1, 2025, the People’s Republic of China marks its 76th National Day. While parades and toasts celebrate national pride, the eternal message of this day has evolved: not merely as a commemoration of its founding in 1949, but as a testament to an extraordinary journey of transformation. China flourished from a seed, growing […]
On 01st September, 2025, His Excellency Xi Jinping, the President of the People’s Republic of China, during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Plus meeting held in Tianjin, China proposed the Global Governance Initiative that took in mind a foundational basis of the 80th anniversary of the victory of the world anti-fascist war and the resultant birthing […]