USA

23

Jul

China, Geoeconomics, geopolitics, Russia, USA

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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05

May

China, countering US sanctions, Iran, NATO, Russia, SANCTIONS, USA

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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14

Apr

American Power Crisis, Atlantic, Donald Trump, EU, Europeans, Joe Biden, NATO, The decline of the West, USA

The American Power Crisis: How Europeans See Biden’s America

BY: William Holmes PEJOURNAL - Most Europeans rejoiced in Biden’s victory in the November US presidential election, but did not think he could help the United States return as a leading world leader.Europeans’ attitudes toward the United States have changed. The majority of major member states now think that the US political system is broken and that Europe cannot rely on the United States alone to defend it.They value the systems of the EU and/or their countries much more positively than the United States – and look to Berlin, not Washington, as their most important partner. America’s weakness has geopolitical…

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31

Mar

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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29

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…

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26

Jan

China, Joe Biden, USA, Zhao Lijian

Zhao Lijian urges Biden Administration to Learn from Trump’s Strategic Errors and Wrong Policies Towards China

PEJOURNAL - Zhao Lijian, The Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman, reiterated its hopes for better relations with the new US administration of Joe Biden, urging the incoming President to learn from Donald Trump’s errors and not to treat Beijing like a threat. Speaking on Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Zhao Lijian said Beijing hoped President Joe Biden would help get Sino-US relations back on track, RT reported.  “In the past few years, the Trump administration has made strategic errors, treating China as a strategic competitor or even a threat, and accordingly adopted a series of wrong actions that interfere with China’s…

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06

Dec

Bin Salman, Iran, Joe Biden, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, TRUMP, USA, Washington

Six Challenges of Bin Salman in the Biden Period

BY: Ruhollah Qasemian PEJOURNAL - With Biden coming and changing US foreign policy in the Middle East, we seem to be witnessing serious challenges and concerns for the throne of the young Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia ( Bin Salman ), the least likely of which is the formulation of US Middle East policy in Washington and the White House not in Riyadh and the court of King Salman. After the outcome of the US presidential election and Biden's decisive victory in the field of US foreign policy in the Middle East, two issues are eye-popping. The first is the…

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29

Nov

Assassination, Iran, Israel, Middle East, mohsen fakhrizadeh, USA

A murder has made a dark Middle East darker than ever

BY: Martin Love Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands by a screen with an image of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh during a news conference at the Ministry of Defence in Tel Aviv PEJOURNAL - Joe Biden’s up and coming “climate” czar John Kerry has claimed the reason Russia came to Syria’s aide several years ago was because ISIS was threatening Damascus in the heart of Middle East. And he also more or less admitted to the U.S. role assisting ISIS because the U.S. thought Syria might thus be brought to the negotiating table. But what has been most elusive…

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22

Nov

China, Donald Trump, Europe, Iran, JCPOA, Nuclear Program, Russia, SANCTIONS, Trump administration, USA

US sanctions against Iran under Trump

BY: Political Economy Journal PEJOURNAL - U.S. government under Trump imposed many sanctions on Iran to force the Islamic Republic to accept the security interests of the West. This note assesses the characteristics of these sanctions. On May 8, 2018, US President Donald Trump kept his promise to leave JCPOA. The move marked the beginning of a policy called "maximum pressure" to force Iran to negotiate favorably with the West in the nuclear, missile and regional spheres. Sanctions, number and objectives The Trump government had imposed sanctions on Iran six times before leaving JCPOA, but then imposed sanctions on Iran…

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13

Nov

Baltic Region, baltic sea, EU, NATO, Russian, USA

Russian Policies in Baltic Region

BY: Daniel Ranjbar PEJOURNAL - Russia’s relations with the Baltic states, including Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, have deteriorated since the collapse of the Soviet Union, with Russia and its Western allies blaming Russia for the increase. It should not be overlooked that the differences between Russia and the Baltic states are rooted in the centuries-old history of the inhabitants of the region. Army of Poland and Lituvania occupied Moscow for two years to become the only country in history to conquer Moscow, unlike Napoleon, the leader of France, and Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany. The three Baltic republics, Estonia,…

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