The United States is trying to restore the shaky positions in Latin America, Diplomatic Courier, and Foreign Policy note. Winter, the editor-in-chief of the magazine Americas Quarterly, is convinced that the Trump administration has finally realized that further inaction is fraught with increasing influence of China in the region, which …
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New front-lines in the trade war. Media review
The Japan Times indicates that Japan and the EU are entering a new phase of their relations, ‘Tokyo and Brussels are actively getting closer owing to similar problems in their dialogue with Washington’. In the rhetoric of European and Japanese leaders EuroNews is hearing the appeal for forming an alliance …
Read More »Why the World Will Not Be the Same
Observing the world’s leading economies, it’s easy to see that there has been a split between the US and other countries of the Western world, which is getting deeper and deeper. Saying “the Western world”, I mean not only North America and Western Europe, but also some other countries pursuing …
Read More »Mexican Anti-Trump. Media Review
The recent victory of the candidate from the Left Alliance Andrés Obrador in presidential elections in Mexico will contribute to further cooling of relations between Mexico and Washington, most commentators believe. The New York Magazine observes, Andrés Obrador will continue to be commensurate with the reputation of a tough critic …
Read More »Ukrainians are prepared for the presidency of Nalyvaichenko
Carefully cultivated European image of the official Kiev motivates some idealistically oriented Western partners to observe the processes passing in the country through the lens of their own democratic experience. However, there’s a difference between positioning as a democrat, and being a democrat. Ukraine lives under absolutely different laws than …
Read More »PROGNOSTICS XXI Part 2. The shepherds and the flocks
The previous part of the Prognostics, devoted to technical unemployment, ended with the question, ‘Will humanity revolt against industrial robots depriving people of their livelihoods?’ In this part, we will try to give a reasonable answer to it. Approaching to any statement on the issue follows the identification of a …
Read More »Family Dispute. Media review
According to analysts, the escalation of trade disputes between the USA and Canada can lead to a systemic crisis between the two countries. As the Globe and Mail writes, non-diplomatic insults of President Trump against Prime Minister Trudeau at the G-7 Summit evoked widespread reaction within Canadian elite that called …
Read More »Hidden Reality of International Policies
There are at least two Histories. One of them is obvious and publicly available; the other is covert, hidden from the eyes of outsiders under the cloak of secrecy. And it is not hard to find which one is true. Dozens of thousands of learned scholars, holders of authoritative scientific …
Read More »A punch in the underbelly: press review
European and American media outlets note Beijing’s efforts to intensify its cooperation with natural resource-rich states of Latin America. According to an expert at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars whose name is Jorge Heine, China has already secured the status of a major trade partner of Latin American …
Read More »Iranian ‘apple of discord’: press review
Many European news media tend to state the fact that the withdrawal of the US from the Iranian nuclear deal has politically cornered the European Union. Even though the decision of the US administration was predictable, Brussels and Europe’s ‘locomotives’ turned out to be unprepared to offer effective response actions. …
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