Within a short period of time, the situation in the Baltic Sea region has changed radically
Within a short period of time, the situation in the Baltic Sea region has changed radically, writes Konstantin Khudoley, head of the Department of European Studies at the Faculty of International Relations of St. Petersburg State University.
During the Cold War, the Baltic Sea had a low level of confrontation, and after it ended, the region was clearly dominated by trends towards the development of mutually...
... less powerful А800 and H800.
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Indicatively, fearing new export restrictions by the Biden administration, the Chinese technical giants (Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent and Alibaba) immediately accepted this alternative version and ordered tens of thousands of processors.
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Owing to the high demand, However, in October 2023, new US sanctions followed, this time banning the supply of H800 and A800 GPUs to China. Nvidia is again planning to develop special versions that would not be subject to ...
... States are about the likelihood of an escalation of their differences in Eastern Europe. China and the United States are also showing serious restraint and skilfully resolve their differences without bringing them into direct conflict. The fact that thousands of human lives become the price for general revisionism is a huge tragedy. But in conditions when a major conflict is impossible and irrational, and the contradictions between many powers aimed at revising the international order are great, it ...
He lived long enough to see the system of international relations, to which he had devoted his long professional career hook, line and sinker — running amok and collapsing
On July 30, 1894, Otto von Bismarck, the elderly first chancellor of the German Empire and a prominent statesman of the 19th century, was dying in his estate near Hamburg. As he was passing away, he whispered in his deathbed delirium: “I am dying... proceeding from the common national interests, it’s impossible....”
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... itself. But such rights should never go beyond the border defined by UN Resolutions 181 and 242 as mentioned.
The U.S. could have taken measures to stop Israel from occupying Palestine territories. On the contrary, U.S. Trump Administration recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital by moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and even officially recognized Israel’s annexation of the territories as legal in 2019.
Where there is occupation, there is opposition. The opposition could always be ...
As the world's two super-nuclear powers, the relations of Russia and the U.S. are inseparable from nuclear risk
Since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Russia and the United States have been engaged in an almost open nuclear game, but in different forms and with different objectives. Both Russia and the United States are well aware of the presence of the nuclear weapons factor in this conflict. Russia's main objective is to deter the United States and NATO from directly intervening...
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview for the RT channel, Moscow, November 15, 2023
Question:
If we can start with the war in Gaza. It’s now into its fifth week, thousands of people are dead, fatalities every day. How does the Russian Foreign Ministry see its role in facilitating an end to the violence?
Sergey Lavrov:
There are several aspects to this problem, to this crisis. The immediate task is to stop hostilities,...
For more than 30 years, Washington has failed to build a just order, which is why we are now experiencing unprecedented crises
The wars in Ukraine and in Gaza are very different; yet, they are definitely linked as two flashing indicators of how the change in the world order is proceeding. Regrettably but unsurprisingly, the relatively peaceful previous power transition that followed the end of the Cold War is unlikely to be repeated. The slow end of the American Century is already being marked...
... Under these circumstances, Western authors believe, the U.S. and its main Pacific allies, Japan and the Republic of Korea, should close their ranks even more. Such reasoning is constructed for some alternative reality as it suffers from a lack of causality. More so, it is absolutely unclear why the formats of cooperation between “liberal democracies” are so much better than the cooperation of “autocracies.”
The TAO of security
Andrey Kortunov:
US — Japan — South Korea Military Cooperation ...
Success in Venezuela is important for American diplomacy
For a long time, Washington has consistently increased sanctions pressure against the government of Nicolas Maduro. Back in December 2014, the Venezuela Defence of Human Rights and Civil Society Act (PL 113-278) passed through the US Congress and was signed by the president. The law required the president and his administration to use blocking and visa sanctions against Venezuelan individuals
linked to widespread human rights abuses
. Following...
