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Russia has again hinted that it's making changes to its official stance on the use of nuclear weapons, amid Ukraine's continuing incursion into its Kursk border region.
Veteran Israeli journalist and author Caroline Glick interviewed Asia Times Deputy Editor David P Goldman on her popular podcast on August 30. The interview is available on YouTube. An abridged transcript follows here:
“Asean has, to some extent, increased Vietnam’s diplomatic room for manoeuvring when dealing with China,” said Huong Le Thu, deputy director of the International Crisis Group’s Asia programme. “Vietnam’s initial hope was to set its territorial disputes with China in the context of a multilateral dispute” between Beijing and members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, she said.
“All that remains of the West is the ever more artificial, even insane attempt to arrest the wheel of history… In this senile Europe, the nations, states, and ruling classes… keep their faith in empty formulae of freedom and progress.”
Western countries seeking to diversify away from China's dominance in copper could delay the energy transition besides raising costs, while its complete replacement would be 'unfeasible,' according to Wood Mackenzie.
For the Kremlin, its “partner of no limits”, China, isn’t doing enough to aid Russia’s war against Ukraine. So, Russia has signed a peace treaty with North Korea, hoping to pressure China into backing Moscow’s war effort further.
Even other members within Brics have been reluctant to embrace belt and road projects, arguably for fear of alienating key Western powers which with they have close relationships.
