President Donald Trump departed China on May 15, 2026, after a two-day summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping that was scrutinized from every angle for clues on where the relationship is heading. Trump hailed the trip as “incredible,” while Xi...
China’s accelerating missile buildup is increasingly turning industrial capacity, stockpile depth, and sustained precision-strike capability into decisive factors in the emerging military balance over Taiwan and the wider Indo-Pacific. This month, Bloomberg reported that China sharply accelerated missile production in...
- - - - Years before supply chains, overfishing, environmental depletion, and geopolitical influence became everyday global talking points, Asia Sentinel was already reporting on how China’s growing economic and industrial appetite was reshaping the world around it. Reading these stories...
I thought it would be useful to highlight the reporting and analysis of the New York Times , the Washington Post and Politico regarding President Donald Trump’s trip to China. I read it so you...
At least 80 deaths reported in Congo’s Ituri province while Uganda reports spread from travellers from the DRC The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda a “public health...
Comoros announced the temporary suspension on Saturday of new fuel prices introduced in response to the Iran war, backing down after the hikes prompted demonstrations and deadly clashes across the East African archipelago. The announcement came after one person was...
Outspoken Spanish star Javier Bardem told AFP he was "getting more work than ever" despite his public campaigning against Israel's war on Gaza, something he attributed to "the narrative changing" around the war. At the last Oscars...
FIFA Secretary-General Mattias Grafstrom held a constructive and positive meeting with Iran's FA (FFIRI) President Mehdi Taj on Saturday, he told Reuters , expressing confidence about the country's participation at this year's World Cup. Iran is scheduled to...
Bulgaria wins the 70th Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday with the party anthem Bangaranga , beating 24 other countries with 516 points, while protests went underway over Israel's participation in the contest over its war on Gaza. Dara,...
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) welcomes two new board members Board Additions Bring Decades of Legal Excellence and Deep-Rooted Commitment to Arab American Civil Rights The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) today announces the appointment of two new members to its Board of...
Il sorpasso storico delle riserve auree sui titoli del Tesoro americano segna la fine dell’unipolarismo monetario. Dalle banche centrali di Pechino e Nuova Delhi al rimpatrio francese, anatomia di una transizione che nessun comunicato ufficiale ha il coraggio di chiamare...
France's justice minister will head to Algeria next week to discuss improving cooperation and the fate of a detained French journalist, his office said Saturday, as ties warm following a diplomatic spat. "The purpose of this trip is to...
Israel launched a massive series of airstrikes on southern Lebanon on Saturday, despite an extension of the truce between the two countries. Israel claims it is targeting Hezbollah, but the strikes were preceded by an evacuation warning covering nine...
The first time one truly stands before a Ming-style horseshoe-back armchair, a quiet misperception arises. It does not feel like an antique. It feels like a piece of modern design completed several centuries too early. There is no heavy imperial...
GAZA, (PIC) Thousands of Gazans took part on Saturday in the solemn funeral procession for Izzuddin al‑Haddad, commander‑in‑chief of Hamas’s al‑Qassam Brigades, who was martyred along with his wife and daughter in an Israeli strike yesterday. The funeral procession set out from...
Hundreds of thousands of pro-Palestine demonstrators marched through central London on Saturday for the annual Nakba Day protest , in what organisers described as a mass mobilisation against Israel’s war on Gaza and the far...
However, the deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak notes, on Friday evening, the State Financial Monitoring Service warned banks that the sources of funds for the bail would be checked and sanctions would follow in case of violation of the rules of financial...
Improving US–Russia relations under the Trump 2.0 administration is being challenged by alleged deep-state actions targeting Russian diplomats. The forced granting of US citizenship to diplomats’ children is portrayed as a violation of international diplomatic norms and a means of...
GAZA, (PIC) The leader Izz al-Din al-Haddad, Abu Sohaib, was one of the most mysterious leaders of the Qassam Brigades of the Hamas Movement, as he remained for many long years leading military and security work for the Movement, while he...
Israel’s offensive on Lebanon this year has killed hundreds of children , who continue to face the devastating repercussions of war despite a ceasefire agreed last month, two children's welfare groups have told The New Arab . Earlier...
China confronta EUA, declara nulas sanções contra Irã e se junta a Rússia e Irã. Triunvirato multipolar vira jogo e enterra hegemonia ocidental. Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su O mundo ocidental...
EE. UU. compra votos en la ONU para asfixiar a Cuba: chantajea países, amenaza con sanciones y presiona para mantener el bloqueo y la condena a la isla. Únete a nosotros en Telegram , Twitter y VK . Escríbenos: info@strategic-culture.su...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) forced two Jerusalemite citizens to demolish their own homes in east Jerusalem under the pretext of unlicensed construction. According to local sources, Omar Halsa was compelled to demolish his home at his own expense...
The Tisza leader campaigned as ‘Orbán 2.0,’ but days into office, he launched a Tusk-style parliamentary coup, purging conservatives, shutting down state media, and surrendering to Brussels on migration and foreign policy. By Rafael Pinto BORGES Join us on Telegram...
The US military, "in coordination with the Armed Forces of Nigeria," killed Abu Bilal al Minuki and several other senior Islamic State leaders in an operation in northeastern Nigeria. President Trump and US Africa Command described Minuki as the Islamic...
Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Tucker Carlson, like any genius in the media world, has an uncanny knack for zeroing in on men and mice who have something ‘original’ to contribute. His...
Farage went ahead with his new model in the parliamentary system as he had two chief advantages from players on the sidelines, Martin Jay writes. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su What are...
When Britain sent its first formal diplomatic mission to China in 1793, one of the participants from London, Peter Auber, remarked that the group had been “received with the utmost politeness, treated with the utmost hospitality, watched with the utmost...
Both Trump’s Iran war and the closely connected Israeli war for Jewish hegemony across the Middle East are unravelling fast. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Both Trump’s Iran war and the closely...
Hours after the US announced a 45-day extension to the Lebanon-Israel ceasefire, Israeli strikes once again pounded southern Lebanon . The US hosted two days of direct talks this week between Lebanese and Israeli officials, resulting in an...
US President Donald Trump’s historic visit to Beijing raises hopes of “a constructive and strategically stable relationship” between the US and China, Beijing, May 15, 2026 Narratives in international diplomacy are best formed through an organic process as the variables...
GAZA, (PIC) From the highest political and military levels in Israel, an announcement was issued regarding the execution of an assassination operation targeting one of the Palestinian resistance leaders in the Gaza Strip on Friday in a step that reflects a...
There is some confusion as to why China’s UN ambassador just criticized the US-Bahraini resolution on the Strait of Hormuz, given that Trump officials claim that the Chinese told Trump in Beijing that they agree that the Strait must be...
The US is considering asking Israel to give some tax money it is withholding from the Palestinian Authority to Donald Trump's Board of Peace to fund the US president's post-war plan for Gaza, five sources familiar...
The US is considering asking Israel to give some tax money it is withholding from the Palestinian Authority to Donald Trump's Board of Peace to fund the US president's post-war plan for Gaza, five sources familiar...
A Paris magistrate will investigate the 2018 assassination of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi after rights groups filed a complaint against Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, French sources told AFP on Saturday. Both Mohammed Bin...
Syria named a new central bank governor on Friday in the latest reshuffle since last week's partial government overhaul. The official SANA news agency said Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa named Abdul Hamid Raslan, a longtime banker...
Palestinian activist Ramy Shaath is facing deportation from France after authorities deemed his presence a "serious threat to public order", his lawyer told AFP on Friday. Shaath, 54, was a prominent figure of the 2011 uprising in...
German car giant Volkswagen is reportedly close to signing a deal with Israeli defence company Rafael Advanced Defence Systems to produce components linked to the Iron Dome air defence system at a factory in western Germany,...
GAZA, (PIC) The Israeli occupation army continued its ceasefire violations for the 219th consecutive day on Saturday morning by carrying out artillery shelling and gunfire attacks in different areas of the Gaza Strip. According to media sources, an Israeli helicopter opened fire...
GAZA, (PIC) In the northern Gaza Strip, Eid al-Adha is approaching this year amid devastation and famine, as the traditional sacrifice ritual has become an unreachable luxury for most Palestinians due to Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza and the near-total collapse...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) said Israel’s mass arrest policy has long served as a central pillar of its settler-colonial project targeting Palestinians through a systematic structure of repression, isolation, torture and enforced disappearance, warning that these practices have...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed different areas of the West Bank and kidnaped a number of Palestinian citizens last night and at dawn Saturday. According to local sources, the IOF kidnaped two citizens from their homes in the...
Israeli forces killed at least eight Palestinians and wounded 45 others in an intense bombing campaign in Gaza on Friday, while the Israeli army said it assassinated a senior Hamas official. The Israeli bombardment, which comes despite a...
Millions of documents chronicling the Nakba (catastrophe) and the history of Palestinian refugees since their enforced displacement by Israel in 1948 were secretly evacuated from Gaza and occupied Jerusalem during a covert months-long operation...
Not all of us will stand on the plains of Arafah this year. Not all of us will circle the Kaabah or feel the weight of “Labbayk Allahumma Labbayk” rise from our chests into the sky. Some of us will...
Business Shanghai non sembra particolarmente impressionato dall’arrivo dell’Imperatore di Barbaria. Segue nostro Telegram . La potenza cinese avanza come un veicolo elettrico che sfreccia a tutta velocità. L’atmosfera è elettrica. Durante una cena d’affari in un rinomato ristorante cantonese, la...
The Middle East is not being remade; it is being contested widely and publicly. The emerging alignment between Israel and the United Arab Emirates appears, at first glance, to signal a decisive geopolitical shift. Yet beneath the optics of normalization...
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