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Sunday 24/February/2019 21:05 PM

Brexit’s lost world

Dramatic changes have swept the world since British voters decided in 2016 to leave the European Union. None of them could have been easily foreseen in...
Saturday 23/February/2019 20:57 PM

Showdown in Munich

It was at the 2007 Munich Security Conference that Russian President Vladimir Putin first signalled a cooling of Russian-Western relations. Soon thereafter,...
Saturday 16/February/2019 15:35 PM

The looming Taiwan crisis

Much of lasting significance happened in 1979. There was the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and Iran’s Islamic Revolution, which brought to power a regime...
Saturday 16/February/2019 15:18 PM

What Venezuela tells Europe about Russia

On January 23, National Assembly President Juan Guaidó swore himself in as Venezuela’s interim president before thousands of citizens, in an open...
Wednesday 13/February/2019 14:26 PM

The mirage of a global euro

One of the great claims made for the euro was that it would rival the US dollar as a second global reserve currency. These hopes have failed to materialize....