Europe

Insights 03/04/22, 16:28

The Ukraine crisis is the main issue of international concern. Recently, some Chinese citizens have reportedly left and traveled to neighboring countries in Ukraine. At a press conference of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Feb. 28, in response to the evacuation plan, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said that ...

China 03/04/22, 16:13

Several senior Biden administration officials and one European official reported that senior Chinese officials told top Russian officials in early February not to attack Ukraine before the end of the Beijing Winter Olympics, The New York Times reported. The intelligence report noted that senior Chinese officials had a degree of knowledge ...

U.S. 03/04/22, 13:31

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham on Thursday, March 3, called for "removing" Russian President Vladimir Putin amid Russia's war against Ukraine, The Wall Street Journal reported. The South Carolina Republican senator hinted that assassinating the Russian president would be the only way to end the crisis over Russia's invasion of Ukraine during ...

Insights 03/04/22, 11:58

The Nord administration – the owner of The Matisse Museum in Le Cateau-Cambresis, northern France – announced on Feb. 25 2022 to suspend the exhibitions of paintings by French artist Henry Matisse in Beijing and Shanghai. The decision came “in the context of the geopolitical crisis triggered by Russia's declaration ...

Insights 03/04/22, 11:52

Did Putin play Xi Jinping's game? Twenty days before Russia swung its troops into Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping signed a Joint Declaration on "unlimited cooperation" between both sides in Beijing on Feb. 4, ahead of the Olympics. Jerome Alan Cohen, a retired law professor at New ...

Insights 03/04/22, 08:58

At CPAC held in Orlando on Feb. 26, former deputy national security adviser Kathleen Troia McFarland made comments on China and Russia in an interview with the “China Insider” program. She said that the greatest strategic threat is the China-Russia alliance.McFarland explained that the combination of Chinese technology, money, and its ...

Insights 03/04/22, 08:34

What impact will the Russian-Ukrainian war have on US-China relations and Xi Jinping's personal political destiny? Jerome Alan Cohen is a retired law professor at New York University. Professor Cohen is also a China expert and a senior fellow for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Professor Cohen said to ...

U.S. 03/03/22, 21:36

Amid rising tensions between the United States and Russia, U.S. power companies are lobbying the Biden administration not to sanction uranium imports from Russia, arguing that it is crucial to keeping domestic electricity cheap, Reuters reported. Fifty percent of U.S. nuclear power plants are fueled with uranium from Russia and its ...

Insights 03/03/22, 21:25

In an unexpected twist in the decision by Olympic authorities, Russian and Belarusian athletes have been excluded from the Paralympic Games because of the war between Russia and Ukraine, a move Russian officials called "illegal" After announcing on Wednesday, that athletes from Russia and Belarus could compete, but only as "neutrals" ...

Insights 03/03/22, 21:09

On February 28th, Russia's energy giant Gazprom signed a contract to build a massive gas pipeline between both nations, the Soyuz Vostok project. The deal came amid the backdrop of noxious sanctions from international governments against Russia for invading Ukraine. According to Bloomberg, the new project could facilitate up to 50 billion ...

Insights 03/02/22, 20:09

Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin(汪文斌) hosted a regular press conference on Feb. 28. A reporter asked him about China’s attitude towards Putin’s order to put nuclear deterrent forces in a ‘special regime of combat duty’. In response, Wang Wenbin said that on one hand China is closely watching the development of ...

China 03/02/22, 19:51

Amid growing fears that China is taking advantage of Western distractions over the Russia-Ukraine conflict to attempt an invasion of the island of Taiwan, the United States on Tuesday, March 1, sent a delegation to meet with President Tsai Ing-wen. The Chinese regime described this visit as 'useless', Taiwan News ...

Insights 03/02/22, 18:46

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has faced strong opposition from the West and the international community. However, China has avoided criticizing Moscow's actions. In contrast, the New York Times reported that Chinese internet users have shown they favor Russia, calling Putin "the best legacy of the former Soviet Union" and "the greatest ...

U.S. 03/02/22, 18:33

Global sanctions against Russia have come in waves. Europe and the U.S. recently introduced five more powerful sanctions against Russia. In addition, the White House has also introduced a new set of sanctions aimed at placing Russian-held cryptocurrencies on the sanctions list. In the early morning of Feb. 27, the ...

Economy 03/02/22, 18:10

Sanctions from Europe and the U.S. have moved to the Russian Central Bank, controlling 630 billion dollars of foreign exchange reserves. On the last day of February, the U.S. has increased its strict prohibition on transactions with the Russian central bank, intending to collapse the Russian economy and finance completely. ...

Insights 03/02/22, 17:51

On Tuesday, Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba called on China and other countries to pressure Russia to stop its invasion of Ukraine. The call came as Kuleba had a telephone discussion with China's Foreign Minister, Wang Yi. His Chinese counterpart urged Kyiv to resolve the current crisis through negotiations with Moscow. According ...

Economy 03/02/22, 17:43

After Europe and the United States surrounded Russia's central bank and its major financial institutions, the ruble collapsed, and the one-day drop set a historical record. In this regard, The Economist pointed out that the economic weapons of the West targeting the central bank will frighten the Chinese regime, which may ...

Insights 03/02/22, 17:24

The situation in Russia and Ukraine continues to escalate. On Feb. 26, the Russian Ministry of Defense ordered an all-around attack on Ukraine, which Ukraine struggled to resist. Meanwhile, the U.S., UK, EU, and Canada took further action to remove Russian central banks from the SWIFT international payments system. On Feb. 27, the ...

China 03/02/22, 16:50

As the war heats up, international sanctions continue. In response to the invasion of Ukraine, the West imposed sanctions on Russia's financial institutions. According to a press release from Russia's Central Bank, customers of some of its top banks can no longer use Apple Pay or Google Pay with their debit ...

U.S. 03/02/22, 04:30

A political writer discovered that a vice-presidential speech sounded like a viral beauty pageant video from March 1. Kamala Harris's simplistic explanation of Russia's proposed invasion of Ukraine raised eyebrows. "Ukraine is a country in Europe, it exists next to another country called Russia," she said in a video shared on Twitter. "Russia ...