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French media malicious maneuvers remains hatched against stability in Algeria
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Nov
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French media malicious maneuvers remains hatched against stability in Algeria

BY: Hana Saada PEJOURNAL - French media maneuvers continue attempting to sap the stability of Algeria with the broadcast of biased documentaries aiming at spreading falsehood and tarnishing the image of the country that kicked out the French colonizer from its territories in 1962. The French television channel M6 broadcasted, two months, a program, entitled: “Enquête Exclusive” (Exclusive Inquiry). This 75-minute report, bearing the name: “Algeria, The Land of All revolts” which was filmed clandestinely in a "hidden camera" mode, portrays falsified and biased testimonies on Hirak “, the popular peaceful protests that erupted in the country in February 2019,…
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Ethiopian armed conflict may affect Nile Dam dispute
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Nov
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Ethiopian armed conflict may affect Nile Dam dispute

BY: George Mikhail PEJOURNAL - The armed conflict in Ethiopia could affect the Grand Ethiopian Nile Dam (Renaissance) file and slow down construction of the dam, which Egypt sees as a big threat to its water security. The armed conflict in Ethiopia between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) has recently escalated. Tensions began to rise after the Tigray region rejected Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s decision to postpone the parliamentary elections because of the coronavirus pandemic and decided unilaterally to hold its own polls in September. On Nov. 5, Ahmed declared a wide-scale war on the…
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Influence of U.S. Versus Chinese Powers of Persuasion in Indo-Pacific region
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Nov
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Influence of U.S. Versus Chinese Powers of Persuasion in Indo-Pacific region

"China's Influence Is Economic, While America's Is Diplomacy and Defense” BY: RAND PEJOURNAL - U.S. policymakers and experts are focused on two central questions about long-term strategic competition between the United States and the People's Republic of China (PRC): How do we assess how well the United States is doing relative to China, and which country has more influence in the Indo-Pacific region? RAND Project AIR FORCE researchers addressed these two questions by first defining what influence means in the context of great-power competition and creating a framework to measure U.S. versus PRC influence. The result brings into focus a…
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RCEP: The world’s largest commercial agreement and its consequences on global hegemony.
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Nov
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RCEP: The world’s largest commercial agreement and its consequences on global hegemony.

BY: Begona Arechalde PEJOURNAL - The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a project for the expansion of the free trade area in Asia and Oceania that began to be forged in 2012. After 8 years of negotiations, the ten ASEAN countries (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, that includes Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Brunei), China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand reached an agreement on November 15 that encompasses 30% of the world’s GDP and 2.1 million people. The meeting, held by videoconference due to COVID-19 safety reasons, was attended by…
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Where does the value of governance remain after the 2020 election results?
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Nov
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Where does the value of governance remain after the 2020 election results?

BY: Michael Robbins PEJOURNAL - The majority of Americans, as well as citizens in other countries who have been dealt a bad hand when it came to Trump’s foreign policy, are thrilled today that the reign of the current Administration will come to an end in just two months time, so follow up the election results carefully. PMs and other leaders around the world have congratulated the Biden Harris duo for their victory in this painstaking election. And as the final votes were counted and the final decisions broadcasted by major press outlets—CNN, BBC, The Guardian, ABC, and many more,…
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Getting East Mediterranean Energy Right
15
Nov
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Getting East Mediterranean Energy Right

BY: Nikos Tsafos* PEJOURNAL - This was a tumultuous summer in the Eastern Mediterranean. On August 12, there was a collision between a Greek frigate and a Turkish frigate as the two navies circled the Turkish survey vessel Oruc Reis. Military exercises drew in forces from the United States, Russia, and France. The United States, Germany, and NATO each tried to mediate between Greece and Turkey. The Mediterranean members of the European Union held a summit, leading French president Emmanuel Macron to tweet “Pax Mediterranea” (whatever that means). Russia offered to help lower tensions, and Greece announced a massive weapons…
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No Democrats or Republicans policy can bring peace to Middle East
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Nov
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No Democrats or Republicans policy can bring peace to Middle East

PEJOURNAL - Stating that peace will require the cooperation and solidarity of the countries of the region, Faruk Logoglu said that no American policy, whether Democratic or Republican can bring peace to Middle East. Democrat Joe Biden has been elected as the 46th president of the United States after garnering over 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House and defeat Trump. Following this announcement, Trump issued a statement, indicating that he is not ready to accept his electoral defeat. However, with Trump’s refusal to accept Biden's victory in the presidential election, concerns grow that he might drag the US military into his political…
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The Quad; A Complement or Replacement for ASEAN?
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Nov
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The Quad; A Complement or Replacement for ASEAN?

BY: Gabriel Joel P. Honrada* PEJOURNAL - There are two emerging guarantors of the multilateral rules-based order in the Indo-Pacific. First is the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) between the US, Australia, Japan, and India. Second is the Association of Southeast Asian States (ASEAN). Both organisations attempt to uphold the rules-based order in the Indo-Pacific, albeit via different means. The Quad provides a tangible enforcing presence and backs up the rules-based order in the Indo-Pacific with the threat of military force. In comparison, ASEAN takes a softer approach of interaction, socialisation, and integration to preserve the same. In view of China’s…
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The crusaders of nowhere
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Nov
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The crusaders of nowhere

BY: Flavio Ferraro* Translated BY: Costantino Ceoldo PEJOURNAL - In some right-wing circles, what to say if you want identitarian or conservative, in the aftermath of each terrorist attack we witness the usual script, in favour of the crusaders of nowhere: in addition to defining with the word “Islamic” criminal actions that have nothing to do with Islam (such as the recent horrible events in Vienna), thunderous appeals are launched to highlight the incompatibility of the Islamic religion with “our values”. Now, if this happened in the ranks of progressives, no one would be surprised; but that all this happens…
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Western Sahara, Morocco clear-cut conflict escalation
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Nov
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Western Sahara, Morocco clear-cut conflict escalation

BY: Hana Saada PEJOURNAL - In a flagrant and deliberate violation of the Ceasefire agreement signed between the two parties to the conflict in Western Sahara (Frente POLISARIO and Morocco) in 1991, the Moroccan occupation forces opened, on Friday, three new breaches in the Moroccan military wall of shame with a view to attacking the peaceful Sahrawi protesters who are protesting peacefully in Guerguerat. In this aspect, the Moroccan Armed Forces sent military forces through three routes east of the illegal breach in Guerguerat to Sahrawi civilians who were demonstrating peacefully in the areas since October 21 against the illegal…
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