Monthly Archives: February 2023
China’s Balloon Reveals the Weaknesses in US National Security Decision-Making
If China perceives that the America’s leaders lack resolve or that its national security decision-makers are divided, these failures can only tempt Chinese aggression against Siberia or Taiwan. After watching America’s debacles in Afghanistan and a week of hosting the balloon, China must be asking: If not now, when?
‘The Global Gateway’: More Empty Promises from the EU?
It has been just over a year since the EU launched its Global Gateway infrastructure project to compete with China’s Belt and Road Initiative. According to African criticism of the project, “While China has roads, bridges and dams to show for its 20-year-engagement with Africa… the EU brings red tape and a lecture.” Pictured: Chinese President Xi Jinping welcome’s Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou in Beijing on May 28, 2019.
The Global Gateway project was launched in December 2021. Meanwhile, China’s BRI was launched in 2012 and has spread all over the globe, especially to Africa, Latin America and Asia, where it has gained China vast influence. The Communist Party newspaper China Daily recently claimed that in 2022 alone, China had signed new contracts with BRI countries worth nearly $100 billion.
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