China: Diplomatic Silk Roads

22.march 2023 Aleksandar Novačić

The art of peace

For Russia and Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping's visit was significant because it shows the world that Moscow, isolated and under sanctions due to aggression in Ukraine and immediately after the indictment against Putin in The Hague, has a powerful ally in the East. The word "ally" should, however, be understood conditionally

China: The Road to the Top of Power

26.October 2022 Aleksandar Novačić

How Xi Jinping was tempered

China prepares its leaders very carefully, comprehensively and for a long time for the state affairs that await them. As the vice president of the republic, Xi Jinping visited about sixty countries before becoming the president of China

Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of China

19.October 2022 Aleksandar Novačić

Brilliant plans, strong winds, turbulent waters

The Chinese Congress continues its work. It will be interesting to see what will be the composition of the new Central Committee, Politburo and especially its Standing Committee of only seven members. They make the most important decisions. Major personnel changes are announced in the Central Committee and the Politburo, but the leading position is already secured. According to expectations, Xi Jinping will receive a new five-year term as head of the KP and the Central Military Commission

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31.July 2022 MT

China and USA: Taiwanese canasta

As uncertainty grew over Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, China announced that it had begun military exercises in the Taiwan Strait.

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15.march 2022 Aleksandar Novačić

Sanctions to Russia: China does not play to the music of Washington

After the high-level meeting of the American and Chinese delegations in Rome, the message from Beijing is that Washington has no right to condition or threaten China with anything, nor to demand a commitment not to supply arms to Russia, or to cut economic ties with it. cooperation. China does not want to improve its relations with the US at the expense of relations with Russia

Comment

14.march 2022 Zora Drcelic

Opposition wanderings: What about the European Union

The opposition in Serbia did not cope with the Ukrainian crisis. He should declare whether he is acting as a pro-European alternative to Vučić in these elections or whether he is afraid of Russophile voters. And the issue of Rio Tinto is an issue of Serbia's European path

The war in Ukraine

07.march 2022 Aleksandar Novačić

The Chinese angle: Don't attack Putin personally

The Chinese public is divided regarding the events in Ukraine: some support Ukraine and condemn Vladimir Putin for aggression, while others sympathize with Moscow's policy and accuse the US of expanding its influence to the east. The party and state leaders have not yet decided what position they will take in the conflict between Russia and the West

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03.march 2022 Aleksandar Novačić

China between Russia and Ukraine: Waiting for developments

Chinese media reports that "the largest evacuation of Chinese in history" has begun and that around 2500 of its citizens, out of six thousand in Ukraine, have already been transferred to neighboring countries. The evacuation is being carried out with the help of the Ukrainian authorities, which was interpreted in Beijing as another example of good relations between the two countries. But the departure of the Chinese does not encourage hope for a calming of the situation. On the contrary

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22.February 2022. Aleksandar Novačić

China and the Ukraine crisis: Solve it peacefully among yourselves

Beijing's reaction to Russia's recognition of the breakaway people's republics of Lugansk and Donetsk in the east of Ukraine is restrained: in principle it supports the territorial integrity of every sovereign state, but at the same time it criticizes NATO's expansion to the east. In a conflict whose end is not in sight, China will take care of its own interests and not worsen trade relations with either the West or Russia

News

01.January 2022 Aleksandar Novačić

Winter Olympics in Beijing: Games around the Games

Some countries, led by the USA, will diplomatically boycott the Winter Olympics in Beijing due to the "situation of human rights" in China. President Biden signed the Xinjiang Import Ban Act as an economic sanction due to the "genocide against the Uyghurs" in that province. The game for supremacy in the world will continue with increased intensity in the new year

The World

25.December 2021 Aleksandar Novačić

China and the Pandemic: Violating Human Rights or Protecting Lives

At any sign of the coronavirus in China, drastic protocols are applied: entire cities are closed, a lockdown is imposed and the entire local population is tested. All this is monitored through smartphones with special health applications owned by a billion people. From the point of view of the West, it is a violation of human rights. The Chinese answer that the right to life is the most important right

News

19.December 2021 M.M

Bolivia: The battle for lithium high in the Andes

The indigenous Quechua people revere the 4.000-square-mile salt-covered plain called the Salar de Uyuni, because their ancestors believed it was a mixture of the goddess's mother's milk and her baby's salty tears. For Texas-based EnergyX CEO Tig Igen, that "pure white beauty as far as the eye can see" is a treasure trove of lithium.

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08.December 2021 Milan Milošević

Putin and Biden Summit: Chess, Poker or Russian Roulette?

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that he will not stand idly by if NATO expands to the east and/or Ukraine attacks Donbas. US President Joseph Biden, who opened two fronts, in Eastern Europe and in the Pacific, confirmed the aid to Ukraine, but also indirectly said that America will not go to war because of it.

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07.December 2021 M.M

US-China: Diplomatic Boycott of the Beijing Olympics and China's Response

The Americans are diplomatically boycotting the Chinese Winter Olympics. Beijing replies that they were not even called and told Biden that at the Democracy Summit, to which he did not invite the Chinese, they should compare the numbers regarding the pandemic - 4.636 deaths from covid in China and 787.695 in the USA