... adopted a different approach, wherein it is ready to meet with representatives of North Korea “anytime and anywhere.” Yet, in practice, it is obvious that the United States only seeks to reinvigorate its sanctions regime, ignoring the implications of COVID-19 as well as repeated calls coming from UN Secretary-General António Guterres to lift all sanctions during the pandemic.
Konstantin Asmolov:
No Prospects for Denuclearization of North Korea
The rigidity of this policy was evident during a series ...
... the right to call early elections at any time. This year, there will be 36 days for the pre-election campaigns.
Carter Boone:
The 2021 Canadian Federal Election and the Arctic
At the centre of the Liberals’ election campaign is the fight against the COVID-19 epidemic in Canada and the economic recovery. The coronavirus has also become a motivator for early elections. In his statement, Justin Trudeau
emphasised
that “Canadians need to choose how we finish the fight against COVID-19 and build back ...
We are all facing a stark choice: either unite against new challenges or become hostage to the various extremists and adventurers
We could rest assured that COVID-19 will be defeated, sooner rather than later. The excessive angst and fear we currently feel will gradually subside, while our science will find effective antidotes so that people could look back on the pandemic years as a ghastly dream.
At the ...
The Covid pandemic has elicited a number of deficiencies in the current global governance framework, most notably its weaknesses in mustering a coordinated response to the global economic downturn
Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.
Carl Jung
The multiplicity of country models of dealing with the pandemic, the “vaccine competition”, the breaking up of global value chains and their nationalization and regionalization all point in the direction of greater localization...
... ensure stability in the oil market by creating coalition formats to regulate oil prices; 2) nuclear energy exports; and 3) surveillance of and partial inclusion in the most promising energy exploration, production and export projects from the region. COVID-19 has forced adjustments to be made to these plans, but Moscow is successfully adapting to the new realities.
Energy price regulation
Russia and Iran in Syria and Beyond: Challenges Ahead. RIAC and the Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies Working ...
... redouble their efforts in investigating the origins of the coronavirus and report back to him in 90 days.
There is nothing wrong about the intention to get the full picture of the global pandemic—all of us would like to see remaining blank spots in the COVID-19 genesis properly filled. However, it is not quite clear why the US leader would like to delegate to the American intelligence what seems to be a problem primarily for the international research community and institutions like the World Health ...
... Committee (DAC) (comprises developed economies, including the EU and the United States) amounted to USD 161.2 billion, representing 0.32% of their combined GNI. Initial estimates indicate that within total ODA, DAC countries spent USD 12 billion in 2020 on COVID-19 related activities. As a result, ODA assistance in 2020 increased by 3.5% compared to 2019 and reached its highest level ever recorded. Such an increase, while important in view of the challenges faced by developed economies themselves, falls ...
... Turkey, Egypt, France and Russia, and Victoria Panova, Vice Rector for International Relations at the Far Eastern Federal University, Managing Director of the National Committee of BRICS Research and RIAC Member, spoke during the first session “Post-Covid-19 Global and Regional Trends.”
Anil Wadhwa, Former Secretary (East) of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs and former Ambassador to Italy, Poland, Thailand, and Oman, and Andrey Volodin, Head of the Group of Regional Political Problems of ...
... international order. Ahead of the upcoming Putin-Biden summit, Global Times reporters Xie Wenting and Bai Yunyi (
GT
) interviewed Russian Ambassador to China Andrey Denisov (
Denisov
) on a range of issues including bilateral and trilateral relations, COVID-19, and many others.
GT: Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden will meet in Geneva on June 16. What are your expectations for the meeting? How do you evaluate the possibility of improvement in Russia-US relations during Biden's ...
... the national level for 7 years, since 2014. The new wave of the pandemic that has hit India interfered with the interim assessment of Narendra Modi’s second tenure as Prime Minister in a positive light. In a very short span of time, the number of COVID-19 infected persons in India has skyrocketed—from 8,000 detected and officially reported cases as of February 1, 2021 to 12,000 as of March 1. This figure exceeded the enormous 400,000 infections per day in early May. At the moment, this indicator ...