By Matthew Ehret The best partnerships occur when all participants have special talents to bring to the relationship which makes a whole more powerful than the sum of its parts. This is the beauty of the multi-polar alliance formed by Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and a growing array of Asian, African and South American statesmen…
Category: Geopolitics
Russia and the United States: The Forgotten History of a Brotherhood
by Cynthia Chung “A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it”. – Frederick Douglass (former slave who would later become a great American statesman and diplomat) It has always been an utmost necessity to exercise…
Will Arctic Science Cities Transition Humanity into a Space-Faring Species?
The creation of the Polar Silk Road as an Arctic extension of China’s Belt and Road Initiative means that this neglected, and last unexplored domain of the Earth’s surface is opening up to a serious policy of development for the first time in many decades. The opening up of the Arctic as the new frontier…
V.I. Vernadsky and the American System in Russia
As the dust settled on the American Civil war in 1865, Russia took pride in the fact that this Eurasian nation turned the tide in favor of Lincoln’s cause of preserving the union and abolishing the institution of slavery. Czar Alexander II was also known as “The Great Liberator” for liberating the serfs in 1861…
The Principle of National Sovereignty in an Era of ‘Regime Change’
by Patrick Ruckert Venezuela today brings to the forefront of discussion and debate the fundamental principle of national sovereignty. Its threat must not only raise a protest, but must also provide us the opportunity to define more precisely that principle of national sovereignty. No one has defined that principle better than America’s greatest Secretary of…
America’s Emerging Friendship with Russia and China: A Revival of the Henry Wallace Doctrine for the Post-War World?
During the course of the G20 important agreements and alliances were reached between Russia-China and the USA which indicate that the USA is increasingly moving towards a policy of friendship with the Eurasian powers. This was seen in his positive meetings held between the American President and the Presidents Putin of Russia, Xi Jinping of…
The Russian-China Polar Silk Road Emerges
Whether the Arctic will become a platform for cooperation or warfare has been a question often posed throughout the past 150 years. As early as 1875, a vision for Eurasian-American cooperation was becoming realized as leading Americans and Russians alike foresaw the construction of telegraph and even rail lines across the 100 km Bering Strait…
US-China Collaboration Summit Offers Hope in Resolving Tension
A beacon of sanity shown through the darkness this week as 400 U.S. state leaders, business people, non-profits and Chinese delegates representing four provinces, converged on Lexington, Kentucky from May 22-24 for the 5th Annual US-China Governors Collaboration Summit. The summit was a breath of fresh air in a sea of increasing turmoil and hostility between…
China’s Belt and Road Continues to Win Over Europe as Greece joins 17+1 CEEC Alliance
On April 10th, China’s Premier Li Keqiang celebrated the completion of the 1st phase of the 2.5 kilometer Chinese-built Pelgesac Bridge in Croatia across the Bay of Mali Ston alongside Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic. This ceremony marked a striking victory as the following day ushered in an important 16+1 Heads of State summit that saw Greece inducted as…
President Trump Announces Lunar-Mars Program: Precursor to a New Paradigm in Russia-China-USA Cooperation?
On March 26th President Trump has made the important strategic announcement that America will be reviving the John F. Kennedy space program to bring humanity back to the Moon with the intention to leap onwards to Mars. The White House Press release read: The United States will seek to land on the Moon’s South Pole…
