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North Korea’s Position in the US-China Strategic Rivalry

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China, North Korea, Strategic Rivalry, USA

North Korea’s Position in the US-China Strategic Rivalry

BY: Danieal Ranjbar PEJOURNAL - China-US relations have many complexities and dynamics due to the need of both sides to take advantage of mutual capacities. The United States and China are partners as well as rivals. They are rivals in geopolitics and partners in economics. Their cooperation and contradictions become apparent, one of the most important of which is North Korea; China is helping North Korea maintain a strategic buffer zone against US influence. In studies of China-US competition, most researchers have focused on economic issues and less on geostrategic issues and the role of a third player in these…

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Mar

COVID crisis, COVID-19, COVID19, covidiot, coxxidiot

This is a coxxidiot

Original column BY: Clara Carluccio Translation BY: Costantino Ceoldo PEJOURNAL - They write to us with their usual arrogance, of those who despise those who propose alternative versions of the facts. They are the ones who keep in mind the numbers repeated every day, for a year, like a voodoo formula. Those who walk down the street and complain about “too many people around”, because only they can have the right to go shopping, buy the newspaper, walk an hour or two. They are the ones who spy, when they see people too close, or worse, laughing and having fun,…

Short comic history of a pandemic (2020-2021)

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Mar

2020, 2021, COVID crisis, COVID-19, COVID19, PANDEMIC

Short comic history of a pandemic (2020-2021)

Original column BY: Sergio Flore Translation BY: Costantino Ceoldo PEJOURNAL - In a way yes, they are right: it is like a war. But no, no bayonet charges against the enemy. No act of courage or self-denial and certainly a few pats on the back between fellow soldiers. However, there is Manichean thought, the implicit rhetoric of the “with us or against us”. There is the impossibility of stopping, doubting, asking questions, on pain of social exclusion. Here, in this sense, yes, it is like a war. Brief review, in outline, of the stages of the military campaign. I go…

The danger of British nuclear activities for the world security

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Mar

Britain, British nuclear activities, Dominique Robb, IAEA, NPT, NUCLEAR

The danger of British nuclear activities for the world security

PEJOURNAL - Under the terms of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Convention, the elimination of nuclear weapons is part of the security of the international system, and member states are committed to working towards that.However, British Foreign Secretary Dominique Robb has called the Boris Johnson administration's plan to expand its nuclear arsenal, necessary for what it calls a "minimum of deterrence". The plan seeks to increase the number of British nuclear warheads from 180 to 260, which is completely contrary to the provisions of the NPT. This British action comes at a time when there are a few noteworthy…

Geostrategic scrutiny on the construction of a new energy corridor

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Mar

China, energy corridor, energy economy, Energy Security, energy transit, Europe, gas, geopolitics, Geostrategic, Iran, Oil, Pakistan, Persian Gulf, Russia, Turkey

Geostrategic scrutiny on the construction of a new energy corridor

BY: Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - Energy has become a lever of burden and pressure that influence international relations and geopolitics. Thus, energy security has been considered vital and important around the world which brings an emergency construction of a tactical strategic energy corridor or passage as a way to guarantee safety-ness. One of the main elements that facilitate world economic development is energy. The pursuit of the world towards development has created unsteadiness and imbalances in the supply and demand of energy. Therefore, energy resource has a major issue that needed an emergency approach to the nations globally. It has…

US Strategic Bombers Engage in Arctic, Baltic and Atlantic Exercises

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Mar

Arctic, Atlantic, Baltic, military drills, Russia, Strategic Bombers, USA

US Strategic Bombers Engage in Arctic, Baltic and Atlantic Exercises

PEJOURNAL - U.S. B-2 Spirit bombers concluded their role in what US European Command calls an historic Bomber Task Force deployment to Europe amid unprecedented and daily mounting tensions with the US’s fellow nuclear superpower Russia, last week. The current iteration of the Bomber Task Force mission combined the B-2 deployment with one of B-1B Lancer strategic bombers. Since the Cold War the two planes along with the B-52 Stratofortress have made up the American nuclear-capable, long-range, supersonic bomber fleet. In 2007 the B-1 was converted to carry only conventional bombs in accord with the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty…

29

Mar

Iran, Iran-America, Iranian Revolution, Islamic Revelation, Jammu Kashmir

A lesson from Iranian Revolution

BY: Quayyum Raja PEJOURNAL - If I have to answer in one sentence what the people of Iran have learnt from 42 years old Islamic Revelation, I would say: self-confidence, self-respect, self-reliance and self-satisfaction. The Iranian Monarchy destroyed by the Iranian revolution instilled negativity and pessimism about themselves that Iran can not live, survive and progress without the West. The Iranian revolution, on the other hand, led people to think for themselves and help themselves. As soon as Shah was over thrown, relations between Iran and America deteriorated. America launched a campaign to impose economic sanctions on Iran with severest…

NATO’s Northeastern Expansion Meets Russia’s Northwestern Border

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Mar

baltic sea, NATO, Russia

NATO’s Northeastern Expansion Meets Russia’s Northwestern Border

PEJOURNAL - That German warplanes are within immediate range of Russia’s Kaliningrad oblast (and not much further from St. Petersburg, formerly Leningrad) and that Germany is in charge of a permanent battlegroup formation in Lithuania are topical issues as we approach the eightieth anniversary of Germany’s Operation Barbarossa invasion of Soviet Russia in 1941. When the Baltic states and former Soviet republics Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were brought into NATO in 2004, five years after Baltic neighbor Poland, that expansion consolidated the process of turning the Baltic Sea into a NATO one. The above four nations joined NATO members Denmark…

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Mar

America, Biden administration, China, EU, Foreign Affairs, foreign policy, NATO, Russia, Trump administration, Vladimir Putin, World

America Against the World

BY: Philip Giraldi PEJOURNAL - There are certainly a number of reasons why American government is now only viewed favorably by the Israelis, but totally tone deaf foreign and economic policies have to be right up there in how the world sees Washington. Rather than conform to how other nations are expected to behave, America has elevated “exceptionalism” and “leader of the free world” nonsense to a dogma where it believes itself allowed to behave without restraint in defense of what it claims to be its interests. As all countries act in support of interests, that would at least be…

27

Mar

China, Euro-Atlantic, NATO, new coalitions, Russia

Russia’s need to new coalitions

PEJOURNAL - These days and following the imposition of various sanctions by the European Union and the United States of America on Russia under various excuses, there are concerns more than any other time over relations between Moscow and Euro-Atlantic. There is a question that the intensification of tensions would have what impact on the previous cooperation between Kremlin and the West? And more importantly, it would create which challenges for Russia in one hand and the Western coalition in the other? The new Euro-Atlantic order against Russia It is not hyperbole if we say the arrival of Joe Biden…