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Washington’s doubts about the new strategic relations between China and Russia

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Washington’s doubts about the new strategic relations between China and Russia

BY: William Holmes PEJOURNAL - The US President Joe Biden is looking at Russia in the conflict with China, and with major coalition-building, bilateral sanctions, he is further restricting the close ties between Beijing and Moscow. For Europeans in Russia's neighborhood too, the question has been raised over the years that it does not make sense for the Western world to impose sanctions on Russia so that Moscow moves farther away from Europe and rushes to Beijing. Looking at the geopolitics of the region and the fiery points of Europe in the Baltic, Balkan and Crimean regions; It is understandable…

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…

Weakened dollar, Stronger Administration

BY: Jacobien van der Kleij and Michael Robbins PEJOURNAL - One of the major events that characterized the early Trump presidency was the U.S. trade war with China. From a monetary perspective, the trade war with China was not beneficial to the U.S. dollar, and hitting China with such tariffs showed the U.S. that other countries can, and will, step in when needed.The actual “war” aspect is an editorialization, but the events were still meant to show the world that when two superpowers compete for better trade deals, there is never a clear winner. The rhetoric started on Trump’s campaign…