by M. K. Bhadrakumar*
(30 November 2021) The “feel-good” from Tuesday’s virtual meeting1 [16 November] between President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping leaps out of the US-Russian summit in Geneva in June. Biden’s talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin apparently sought to create a “stable and predictable” relationship with Russia but there is talk of war today.
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.
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.
by M. K. Bhadrakumar*
The Moscow meeting of ten regional states and the Taliban officials on 22 October has produced an outcome that by far exceeds expectations. The salience of the consensus opinion is four-fold, as reflected in the joint statement issued after the event:
by Willy Wimmer,* Germany
(27 October 2021) If the CDU/CSU wants to make itself politically capable of acting once again in the future, all the leaders who made the path to Ms. Dr Merkel’s doom possible in the first place through cowardice, irresponsibility and cowarding should be put on the political siding.