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War With a Capital “W”

Media Theater, Proxy Conflict, and the Death of Continuity. As the Russia-Ukraine conflict drags deeper into proxy-war reality, Western media institutions increasingly appear less interested in describing events than emotionally framing them. What emerges is not simply journalism, but narrative choreography shaped by elite institutional ecosystems, synchronized moral language, and a civilization trapped inside permanent […]
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Putin in Beijing: Russia and China Deepen Their Strategic Axis

As Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing, Xi Jinping sent a carefully calibrated message to Washington: China’s dialogue with the United States will not come at the expense of its strategic partnership with Moscow. Beyond the symbolism and grand ceremony, the Putin-Xi summit revealed a deepening Sino-Russian alignment centered on energy, trade, and the construction of […]
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Two Visits to Beijing, Two Very Different Messages

The visits of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to Beijing revealed not only contrasting diplomatic styles but also a shifting global balance in which China is increasingly building a long-term Eurasian framework alongside Russia. For more than a decade, Western media narratives surrounding Russia and Vladimir Putin have oscillated between strategic alarmism, moral absolutism, and […]
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On the New Foreign Tour of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi

The head of the Indian government paid visits to five countries – the UAE, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, and Italy – between 15 and 20 May. It is noteworthy that N. Modi set off on this trip immediately after the conclusion of the BRICS ministerial meeting in New Delhi, where India, as chair this year, […]
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Putin’s Beijing Stopover and the Alliance Trump Couldn’t Crack

The back-to-back summits in Beijing revealed not only China’s growing diplomatic confidence but also the emergence of a deeper Sino-Russian axis that increasingly challenges the foundations of the US-led global order. Donald Trump flew home from Beijing with Boeing orders and a framework label. Forty-eight hours later, Vladimir Putin touched down at the same airport, […]
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Thucydides’ Trap or a New Paradigm? Xi Jinping’s Direct Challenge to Trump

U.S. President Donald Trump’s two-day visit to China on May 14–15—the first in nearly a decade—turned out to be more of a spectacle than a diplomatic breakthrough and failed to yield any tangible results. When Chinese President Xi Jinping looked Donald Trump in the eye in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People and asked whether […]
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The Eurasian Rebalancing

The emerging Eurasian era reflects not the collapse of the Western system but a gradual redistribution of global power toward a more complex multipolar order. For much of the post-Cold War era, the dominant assumption within the Atlantic world was that history had entered a permanent phase. Liberal globalization, maritime financial dominance, and Western institutional […]
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