Russia Sanctions a Boon for Chinese Arms Sales to Africa?

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Rus­sia has long been the biggest exporter of arms to sub-Saha­ran Africa, but a new study indi­cates West­ern sanc­tions are mak­ing it hard­er for Moscow to sell weapons, open­ing the door for more Chi­­nese-made arms. Even before the Ukraine war, Chi­na had increased its sales of weapons to sub-Saha­ran Africa, export­ing almost three times as…

How the Iraq war altered US politics and led to the emergence of Trump

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The dri­ve to war was fueled by par­ti­san­ship and served as an accel­er­ant to the extrem­ism that led to Trump and the Capi­tol riot Long shad­ow of US inva­sion of Iraq still looms over inter­na­tion­al order Twen­ty years ago, Lt Col Karen Kwiatkows­ki was work­ing as a desk offi­cer in the Pen­ta­gon, when she became aware of…

Massive pro-EU, anti-Russia protest erupts in Georgia

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Thou­sands of peo­ple demon­strat­ed in Tbil­isi overnight, wav­ing EU flags and fac­ing down riot police in protest against a con­tro­ver­sial law which Georgia’s pres­i­dent says is “dic­tat­ed by Moscow.”  In video footage and pho­tographs, pro­test­ers chant­ed “down with the Russ­ian law” as they squared off with heav­i­ly armored police who blast­ed them with water cannons…

Competing US views on origins of Covid reveal deeper splits over China policy

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FBI chief’s endorse­ment of Covid lab leak the­o­ry high­lights the tus­sle between hawks and doves with­in the admin­is­tra­tion The FBI chief, Chris Wray, has endorsed the the­o­ry that the Covid pan­dem­ic was the result of a lab­o­ra­to­ry leak in Chi­na, fur­ther sharp­en­ing an increas­ing­ly com­bat­ive bilat­er­al rela­tion­ship. In mak­ing his inter­ven­tion, Wray, who was appointed…

Rishi Sunak plans US trip with Northern Ireland high on agenda

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UK offi­cials in flur­ry of diplo­ma­cy seek­ing agree­ment with EU over pro­to­col, but play down talk that deal is close Rishi Sunak is con­sid­er­ing a trip to vis­it Joe Biden in the US as talks between the UK and EU over the North­ern Ire­land pro­to­col inten­si­fy. The prime minister’s offi­cials are draw­ing up plans for him…