... security. Western countries’ withdrawal from nuclear energy over the past few decades has enabled Russia to establish itself as the leading international provider of reactors, services, and financing ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-02
... laints by Western countries that are 20 times richer are simply not credible. While the scandal surrounding the Adani empire does not seem to extend beyond the conglomerate itself, the case does have ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-23
... he said. Western leaders responded with scepticism. “China has taken a position on the war,” said Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, in Munich. “It is not neutral. We have ta ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-22
... and other western countries. In May 2020, then U.S. president Donald Trump announced the end of Hong Kong’s special status on the ground that China had stripped Hong Kong of its autonomy. The Biden ad ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-10
... the lame Western reaction to his land grab in 2014, when he occupied Crimea and parts of eastern Ukraine. Multiple voices on Russian propaganda channels are clear that the ambition is both territoria ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-03
... ests that Western leaders, in general, are uncomfortable with the prospect of NATO directly engaging in war with Russia. The West’s plan, at least for now, seems to be to supply Ukraine with enough eq ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-02
... ith other Western democracies, gradually opened up, enabling people to go about their business in relative safety. Even without Xi’s absolutist aspirations, this would have been hard to achieve in Chi ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-18
These cold winter nights, electric lights flood a site of 213,000 square metres in Kumamoto prefecture, western Japan. Workers and building machines are labouring 24 hours a day to complete the first ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-16
... t for his Western allies lest they blame Ukraine for prolonging the war. ANY MEDIATOR? Ripeness Theory suggests that a mediator is vital for initiating negotiations. A mediator could bring breakthroug ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-09
... from the Western Pacific – and the US-Japan alliance is stronger today than it was at the end of the Cold War. Yes, analysts sometimes draw more pessimistic conclusions from war games designed to sim ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-06
... access to Western investment, technology, or consumer goods. Russia’s empires have collapsed before, in 1917-18 and again when the Soviet Union imploded in 1989-91. In both cases, the collapse took a ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-05
... t for it. Western companies were forced to withdraw from their investments in Russia, at enormous cost. Western governments moved to reduce their dependence on the Russian energy market and imposed he ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-03
... e speech. Western media have questioned Hong Kong’s judicial independence after Lee asked Beijing to rule if a media tycoon facing collusion charges could hire a British lawyer even though the city’s ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-22
