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22. John J. Metzler

Ukraine's food siege is broken, we hope

Visiting a bountiful farmers' market on France's western Brittany coast, you can't help but be dazzled by the choice and abundance of fresh fruit and food. Even in small towns, the sheer choice and selection is daunting. Now let's metaphysically transport ourselves to Ukraine's besieged Black Sea coast where for endless months, the bounty of wheat and grains have been blocked by the Russian occupiers from leaving ports and being shipped to the outside world.

2022-07-27 16:43

Jolting wake-up call on Chinese intel theft

The jolting but not unexpected wake-up call came from London. In a rare and unprecedented joint press conference the chiefs of both the British MI5 domestic intelligence service and their American counterpart, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), presented a poignant and riveting account of China's sweeping intelligence-gathering operations and its wider implications for global business, cyber and military security.

2022-07-13 16:54

NATO's new Nordic flank

Just a year ago, the political odds of comfortably neutral Sweden and Finland joining NATO were a long shot. However, Vladimir Putin's attack on Ukraine changed the military threat and jolted the political calculus. At last week's NATO Summit in Madrid, both countries were fast-tracked to full membership in the North Atlantic alliance.

2022-07-05 17:00

Storm clouds threaten Hong Kong's once bright horizons

How time flies. It's been 25 years since Hong Kong returned to Chinese control, a quarter-century since the prosperous British Crown Colony became a semi-autonomous part of the People's Republic of China, the world's largest dictatorship. Nonetheless, the small but feisty islands on the south China coast remained a prosperous and relatively free place, until recently

2022-06-28 16:54

China's new red line threatens Taiwan's space

Is China drawing yet another provocative red line, this time in the narrow but strategic Taiwan Strait? The Beijing regime recently claimed that the Taiwan Strait, the defensive body of water buffering the island democracy from Mainland China, is actually sovereign Chinese territory.

2022-06-22 16:35

Queen's Jubilee revives gloomy Britain

It was a time to celebrate! The 70th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's accession to the throne in 1952 makes her the longest-serving monarch in British history. Thus, the grandly named Platinum Jubilee has not only dazzled the country with its royal pomp and circumstance, but it has also importantly invigorated it with its joyous celebrations of unity across the land.

2022-06-07 16:26

North Korea emboldened by diplomatic silence

North Korea has been making a lot of noise but few seem to notice. Kim Jong-un's reclusive communist regime has fired off 23 missiles since the beginning of the year to the collective yawns of world opinion.

2022-05-31 16:45

Feed people or feed conflict, UN chief warns

“If we do not feed people, we feed conflict,” warned U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addressing an urgent summit on food security in the wake of the ongoing Ukraine war.

2022-05-25 16:22

Putin's next moves revealed?

It's often said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a brilliant chess player. Various geopolitical analysts and think tank acolytes somberly assert this “truism” with requisite well stocked bookcases behind them. Yet has Putin's war against Ukraine, started during the winter, proved a stroke of genius by the denizen of the Kremlin?

2022-05-19 16:00

UN secretary general ramps up diplomacy as Ukraine War widens

Many people ask, “What's the U.N. doing to stop the Ukraine war?” That's a fair question given that the conflict has been raging for more than two months creating Europe's most costly conflict and humanitarian crisis since WWII.

2022-05-04 16:40

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