The rise of the "civilizational state" concept challenges traditional Western hegemony. Small nations like North Macedonia face a paradox: existential threats to sovereignty alongside strategic opportunities. Preserving unique identities is crucial for navigating a multipolar world and fostering genuine dialogue.
The Russia-Ukraine war, now exceeding WWI's duration, is fundamentally altering global order. It has triggered NATO expansion, a new arms race in Europe, and revolutionized drone warfare. Russia faces dependency on China, while North Korea and Iran benefit as arms suppliers. The conflict offers lessons for China, challenges India's balancing act, and highlights limits of US diplomatic efforts.
Andrew Hastie warns Australia must boost AI investment to maintain strategic independence, fearing it could become a 'supplicant state' to the US amid potential conflict with China. He advocates for Australia to become a southern hemisphere tech hub and overhaul education for AI development.
Liberal MP Andrew Hastie urges Australia to significantly boost AI investment to maintain strategic independence, warning against becoming a 'supplicant state' to the US amid potential conflict with China. He advocates for an AI ambassador and education reform.
Canadian PM Mark Carney urged "middle powers" like Canada and Ireland to unite against a breakdown in the global order and superpower dominance, speaking in Dublin ahead of the G7 summit. He highlighted economic integration being weaponized and the threat to the international trading system.
ASEANの有識者調査で、米中いずれかを選ぶなら中国を選ぶとの回答が過半となった。助川成也教授は、トランプ氏の2期目では東南アジア自体が米国の攻撃対象になりつつあると指摘する。
Japanese researchers have launched the "International Order Research Group" to analyze challenges like great power competition and multipolarization. The group aims to address concerns about the decline of democracy and the rise of authoritarianism, as discussed in a dialogue between professors Yoko Iwama and Yuko Kashiya.
Norway is re-evaluating its relationship with the EU, having rejected membership twice before. Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide cited a volatile global landscape, increased trade and security importance of the EU, and challenges from US trade policy and geopolitical tensions as reasons for the reconsideration.
China is signaling its intent to manage relationships with both the US and Russia on its own terms, viewing global dynamics as a competitive environment rather than a binary ideological struggle. Putin's visit to China highlights Russia's dependence on Beijing amid Western sanctions and the Ukraine war.
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov criticized Western aggression and sanctions. NATO intercepted a missile, while the UN urged action against racial hatred. Russia plans an orbital station, recalls WWII, and will raise Ukraine's alleged dirty bomb intentions at the UN. Pakistan proposed a Putin-Trump-Xi meeting. Iran offered uranium enrichment limits, and Russia urged extending the New START treaty. EU anticipates energy crisis due to Iran conflict.
Russia and China are strengthening their economic partnership, with bilateral trade exceeding $200 billion and financial transactions increasingly using rubles and yuan. Energy trade, infrastructure projects, and joint ventures in manufacturing and technology are key pillars of this expanding alliance.
Putin's visit to China to commemorate a treaty with Xi Jinping is seen by analysts as deeper than its official agenda, highlighting China's growing diplomatic leverage and its role in a fragmented global order.
Brics, a grouping of emerging economies, seeks to reduce US dollar exposure and reshape global finance, driven by a shared unease with the current global order despite lacking a coherent strategy or ideology.
The old order is dead. We just don’t know what will replace it. As Henry Kissinger reminded us in his 2014 book World Order, “no truly global order has ever existed”. After US President Donald Trump’s erratic actions, the gloves are off. American comedians and Iranian Lego cartoons tell us all we need to know about the demise of the old order. If the unipolar order is not viable, and America is abandoning the multilateral order and the rules of the game it created after World War II, what are...
Former Japanese prime minister Yukio Hatoyama has urged Beijing and Tokyo to work together against US "arrogance", warning that President Donald Trump's policies are destabilizing the global order. Speaking at a University of Hong Kong event on Tuesday, Hatoyama said Japan and China should find common ground and expand coalitions with like-minded nations to increase their bargaining power. He criticized PM Sanae Takaichi's approach of courting Trump as unsustainable.
The European Union must develop an independent strategy to balance its economic ties with China against its security alliance with the United States, avoiding total subordination to either power.
