Ethiopia’s Medemer philosophy and Russia’s collective security vision complement each other by promoting regional cooperation, strategic autonomy, and non-aggression frameworks for long-term Gulf stability. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” (Helen Keller) This article was inspired by Andrew Korybko’s earlier one titled “Ethiopia’s ‘Medemer’ Concept Would Serve The Gulf […]

In the space of five days, Xi Jinping hosted both Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Beijing. Two summits, back to back, in the same capital, with the same host. The American president arrived with corporate executives and left with a strategic stability framework. The Russian president arrived days later, signed new cooperation agreements, expanded […]

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 […]

Future generations will ask, What did you do when the choice became clear between war and development? Did you defend the old order that was failing, or did you join the movement for a new world? As Europe lay in ruins by the end of World War II, the United States adopted the Marshall Plan, […]

The Xi-Putin summit, held shortly after US President Donald Trump visited China, underscores strong cooperation between the two new superpowers and signals a new front against Western aggression. Russian President Vladimir Putin visited China, just 48 hours after the Xi-Trump summit in Beijing. The significance of this visit was magnified because it coincided with the […]

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, […]

Trump’s China pilgrimage revealed not American strength but the exhaustion of an empire that increasingly mistakes spectacle for strategy, beneath smiling children and waving flags, standing between two civilizations moving in opposite psychological directions: one obsessed with image, the other quietly consolidating power. The Ceremony of Decline Upon arrival, young men and women stood along […]

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 […]