Category: TRENDS IN GEOPOLITICS – Jan 17 2023

Countries in the European Union stopped 330,000 illegal immigrants last year—the highest number since 2016 when Frontex counted about 2 million attempts to cross the border.

Violent clashes between protesters and security officials continue to break out across Peru over the ouster and arrest of President Pedro Castillo, with thousands calling for the resignation of his former vice president Dina Boluarte. 

The Global Times, which is said to be a news arm of the Chinese Communist Party, issued an editorial stating that Tokyo should pursue peace and not ramp up its war talk against China. 

The U.S. is ramping up potential war with China as it ramps up its military partnership with Japan and promises to defend it at all costs. 

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said last week that North Korea’s recent aggression has led Seoul to consider obtaining or developing tactical nuclear weapons, which he said could happen quickly given the country’s “scientific and technological capabilities.”

President Joe Biden, who has benefited from a friendly media while inflation skyrocketed as he waged war with Russia, faces the biggest political challenge of his presidency: the misuse of top-secret documents found in various locations after his term as vice president in the Obama White House.

Day after day, week after week, month after month, the mainstream media covers Russian “atrocities” committed in the Ukraine war... while ignoring Ukrainian mass murder and destruction of the separatist regions.

Protests broke out Saturday night in Tel Aviv’s central Habima Square and other locations over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hardline that has been accused of trying to erase the country’s system of checks and balances by overhauling the judicial system.