The relations between China and Taiwan have been tense since their de facto separation in 1949, and tension has arisen between Beijing and Washington. On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing. The nationalist forces of the Chinese Kuomintang party under Chiang Kai-shek abandoned China and fled to Taiwan (formerly Formosa), then formed a government on December 7 and banned all relations between the island (officially the Republic of China) and communist China. Then, in 1950, Taiwan became an ally of Washington, which was at war with China in Korea. In…
Author: Isidoros Karderinis
The term “Global South” first appeared in 1969 in an article by political activist Carl Oglesby in the liberal Catholic journal “Commonweal”, which argued that the Vietnam War was the culmination of a history of “Northern domination of the Global South”. It was then used in a well-known 1980 report, titled “North-South: A Program for Survival” issued by an independent commission headed by former German Chancellor Willy Brandt, and in a 1990 report, titled “The Challenge to the South: The Report of the South Commission”, issued by a UN commission headed by Julius Nyerere, the then president of Tanzania. However,…
At the dawn of 2024, from January 1, five more countries became full members of the BRICS, a transnational association, which until then consisted of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, and thus became BRICS+ (BRICS Plus), totalling ten countries. Egypt which is located in northeast Africa and partly on the Sinai Peninsula, which is an isthmus to southwest Asia, thus making it a transcontinental country, is considered a major power in North Africa, the Mediterranean Sea, the Islamic world and the Red Sea. A populous – with 104.5 million inhabitants – historical Arab country with a long and…
The region of Palestine since October 7 has entered into a terrible war. And, of course, there the flowers have withered, and the sun has disappeared because the darkness has come, and the youths cannot sing, and the children cannot play carelessly in the streets, and the white doves of peace do not fly in the gloomy sky. And who is to blame for this tragedy? Is it the fault of the Israeli people? Is it the fault of the Palestinian people? Clearly, no. Both people are innocent and good. Israelis are entitled to have their state, but so are…
America is today at the most critical point in its modern history. It is threatened with a collapse which, if it happens, will drag most of the world down. The U.S. debt has now, amid high inflation, rising interest rates—most economic analysts expect the U.S. central bank to continue raising rates—and growing economic uncertainty, in September 2023, topped $33 trillion and amounts to 124% of GDP. And the deficit of the general government – which is the federal and local government together – is over 7% of GDP. This level of debt is more than three times the level of…
Robert Kennedy, son of the assassinated 1968 Robert Francis Kennedy, US Attorney General, New York Senator and 1968 Democratic presidential candidate, and nephew of the also assassinated in 1963 US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, will be a candidate for the Democratic Party’s nomination for the November 2024 presidential election. But who is Robert Kennedy? He is a lawyer-activist, specializing in environmental issues, 69 years old. Raised in the political environment of the Kennedys and embracing the values and political views that have been transmitted to him, he has said: “My father told me when I was a child: ‘People in…
Brazil, Russia, India and China originally formed the bloc in 2009 after a series of meetings and understandings. The first BRIC Summit was held in Yekaterinburg, Russia on June 16 of the same year, where the heads of states in question agreed to strengthen dialogue and cooperation between them. The following year, in Brasilia, Brazil in April 2010, the second Summit was held, where the leaders of these countries emphasized the necessity of a multidimensional global intergovernmental system. Then, at their third meeting in New York in September 2010, the BRICs agreed on the entry of South Africa. South Africa…
For a year and a half, humanity has been plunged into the deep darkness of the coronavirus. A virus now coming to light that was produced in Wuhan’s laboratory had resulted in millions of deaths and ruined the lives of billions of people around the world. But a fabricated virus, that is, a biological weapon is a horrible crime against humanity, and obviously those who have committed this criminal work must be punished in an exemplary way. Of all the prominent virologists on the planet, who have expressed the opinion that the virus was not created by human hands in…
BrexitAbout three years ago, the British people dicided to leave the European Union (EU). The decision was made during the referendum of June 23, 2016 when the Leave supporters won with a percentage almost 52% and with participation 71.8% to determine the exit of Great Britain from the European Union. This great result was undoubtedly the first major, painful defeat for the under German control European Union of the banks and multinationals. However, the exit of Great Britain from the European Union, which was scheduled to take place on 29 March 2019, after exactly two years before had been activated…
The referendum of June 23, 2016 regarding Britain’s remain at or exit from the European Union, through its subversive BREXIT result – the first major, painful defeat for the under German control European Union of the banks and multinationals,- undoubtedly shook the dominant British and European political and economical system. The British, taken as a whole, are not the people of a protectorate who might have perhaps a slave mentality. They are the proud people of a great country that in the past has been an empire and today is one of the world’s largest economies. The British therefore, who…