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G7, surrender to self-made crises

G7, surrender to self-made crises

BY: Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - The idea of forming the G7 after the global oil crisis in 1973 convinced the powerful leaders of the world's major industrialized nations in 1975 that they needed closer and more coherent cooperation for the economic-security crisis caused by economic and oil shocks. But the failure of the Group of Seven in recent years, given the growth of tangible and intangible threats and the changing and fluid nature of threats, has led to the questioning of its existential philosophy. In the current context, and given the out-of-control crises, especially transnational ones, and the conventional and…
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QUAD; creating an atmosphere of pessimism against China

QUAD; creating an atmosphere of pessimism against China

BY: William Holmes PEJOURNAL - Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's legacy as the founder of the QUAD in 2007 was supposed to bring "freedom and prosperity" to the Asia-Pacific area, which ran into problems; and the group was able to meet only once in 2007 and ended its work with a military exercise. With the withdrawal of Australia from the group, which was done due to the improvement of its relations with Beijing, the group's activities were interrupted for more than a decade. In 2012, Japan promoted the group's idea as a "QUAD of democratic security" and thus challenged…
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Will digital Yuan become China’s global trade tool?

Will digital Yuan become China’s global trade tool?

PEJOURNAL - China's central bank said it is seeking cross-border payments with the digital yuan and plans to introduce global standards for digital currencies (digital Yuan) to create a common international monetary system.The Central Bank of China said it is strengthening information security and protecting personal data while developing the experimental use of the digital yuan at home. China is leading the global competition for the central bank's virtual currencies and has long tentatively used the digital yuan in the most major cities, including Shenzhen, Beijing and Shanghai, but has yet to announce any time for its official launch. Many…
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US-China: Geoeconomics Tussle

US-China: Geoeconomics Tussle

BY: Abu Hurrairah PEJOURNAL - Geoeconomics defines itself in two ways: One is the use of the economy to gain geographical or ‎territorial advantages. Second is the use of geographical location to achieve your economic ‎objectives. To understand this core concept in the contemporary world, the best examples to deal ‎with are China and the United States of America. They are keeping in mind that the primary goal of ‎both is to gain power, but the procedures are different. ‎ Talking about China first, we can say that China stands with the first definition of Geoeconomics. It ‎uses its location…
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Necessity of forming the club of countries countering US sanctions

Necessity of forming the club of countries countering US sanctions

PEJOURNAL - Some 30 countries of the world with more than one and a half billion people are presently under the sanctions of the United States in various forms. Iran, China and Russia are the most significant of these countries. In addition to governments, some economic giants and cartels such as companies involved in the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline as well as Turkey, as a US ally in NATO, have been also exposed to lesser extents to the US sanctions. Even though there are news recently about the formation of a global coalition among the countries…
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US Intelligence Community Pumping Up The Fear

US Intelligence Community Pumping Up The Fear

BY: Leonid Savin On 9 April, the US intelligence community released its annual assessment of threats to America. It was also provided to the congressional intelligence committees and the committees on the Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate. The report is in keeping with previous national security and defence strategies: the main threats are still China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, then there is a list of transnational problems, followed by problems related to global terrorism, conflict, and instability. Since the same department has only just put forward its predictions up until 2040, it is probably safe to…
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An analytical approach to Iran-China Strategic Document

An analytical approach to Iran-China Strategic Document

BY: Mohammad Ghaderi and Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - The signing of the 25-year roadmap for comprehensive strategic cooperation between Iran and China, as expected, was met with a wave of marginalization based on distortion of reality by various currents inside and outside the country. The beginning of the drafting of this upstream document, on which Iran and China have agreed as a roadmap for the realization of comprehensive strategic cooperation between the two countries, coincided with the official visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Iran on February 23, 2016. At the time, Tehran and Beijing issued a joint statement…
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From Deng Xiaoping’s China to Xi Jinping’s China

From Deng Xiaoping’s China to Xi Jinping’s China

BY: Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - “When I was growing up in rural China in the 1970s, cars and trucks were scarce. My friends and I preferred to follow these cars on the dirty rural roads and enjoy the game. Today, however, China has become the largest automaker, with twice the capacity of the United States.” says Victor Gao, a famous Chinese translator. “I never imagined that one day a Chinese family would own a car,” Gao told CNN. “I never believed that China would one day become the largest automaker in the world.” “It was beyond my dreams to see…
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Chip shortages are creating a new crisis in the world

Chip shortages are creating a new crisis in the world

BY: Soheil Seyed Jamali PEJOURNAL - The world is currently in a COVID-19 pandemic crisis. The outbreak of this mysterious disease has affected most countries of the world for over a year and has caused many problems. The economic crisis can be considered the biggest and worst result of this virus. According to our current knowledge, the virus started in China and later spread to the rest of the world. Industrialized and rich countries have more production and industrial centers than Third World countries. Thus, the spread of the virus within those countries has complicated the crisis both for them…
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The Eurocretin cuts ties with China and Russia

The Eurocretin cuts ties with China and Russia

Original column BY: Maurizio Blondet Translation BY: Costantino Ceoldo PEJOURNAL - “Italy has aligned itself with other European countries, including France, Germany and Belgium and has summoned the Chinese ambassador in protest against the sanctions imposed by China on parliamentarians, researchers and European Union institutions.” Il Foglio [1] gives the news with a neocon conflict-thirsty great satisfaction: “It is the first time in at least two years - and Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio [2], who exactly two years ago signed with Beijing Italy's entry into the Silk Road, was not there to welcome him – he [Li Junhua] was…
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