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Alfred de Zayas and Adriel Kasonta*
(20 November 2021) The U.S. regained its seat on the UN Human Rights Council in an uncontested vote in the UN General Assembly on October 14, 2021, after the administration of former U.S. President Donald Trump quit the 47-member body in 2018 citing the "chronic bias" against Israel.
by Wilfried Schreiber,* Germany
(18 November 2021) In view of the disaster of the twenty-year Western military presence in Afghanistan, an event on the political-diplomatic level has gone unnoticed in this country, but its geostrategic dimension is just as significant. It is the extension of the "Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation between the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China" for another 20 years. The treaty extension of June 2021 and the joint declaration of both countries could be useful in coming to terms with the war in Afghanistan.
Report from the editorial office of german-foreign-policy.com
(18 November 2021) A supply crisis like the one currently in Great Britain is also threatening Germany and the EU due to the continuously increasing shortage of truck drivers. This is according to estimates by industry experts. In the United Kingdom, after initial difficulties in supplying supermarkets, the petrol stocks of probably two-thirds of all petrol stations ran out last weekend. Despite initial signs of recovery, the shortage continues.
by Thomas Scherr
(18 November 2021) In the aftermath of the 2020 lockdown, many economic problems have arisen, as “German Foreign Policy”, among others, reported in an article at the end of September.1 However, anyone who looks at the current supply crisis only from the perspective of the past five years falls short. It is necessary to look at 30 years of neoliberal globalisation.If you don’t train enough nursing and care staff in your own country, you just get them from abroad. – their own situation is not “our” problem. – The main thing is to keep wages low. Truck drivers are recruited in Poland or Romania or brought in from Belarus. Low wages is all that counts. This is what the free movement of persons in globalised world trade looks like.
Own report of the editorial staff of “German Foreign Policy”
(18 November 2021) A recent study gives the China coverage of the German leading media a disastrous report. According to a comprehensive analysis presented by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (Die Linke), the predominant reporting on China is “characterised by an increased use of clichés and stereotypes, some of which date back to colonial times”.
by M. K. Bhadrakumar *
(5 November 2021) The probability is that the US President Joe Biden committed yet another diplomatic gaffe at a CNN town hall last Thursday [21 October] that Washington had a commitment to come to Taiwan’s defence if it were attacked by China.
Yet, like Biden’s gaffes usually, this one too was not without an element of deliberateness. Biden was even insistent. Indeed, there is an ongoing debate in the US on this topic and Biden tapped into it.