Australia has announced new investments in quantum technology and will design a hub to enable allied countries to interact—all while keeping its eye on countering China’s growing reach in the Pacific. The Wall Street Journal reported that Canberra will invest about $81 million in the technology. The country will also focus on its development of 6G...
Category: TRENDS IN GEOPOLITICS
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COMMISSION WARNS WHITE HOUSE OF COMMERCIAL TIES WITH BEIJING
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on Wednesday published its annual report that warned the White House about the expanding commercial ties between U.S. businesses and China and the risks those relationships bring. “The U.S. businesses and investors must recognize that their participation in the Chinese economy is conditioned by the CCP’s policy priorities...
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CHINA MOCKS AMERICA: ELITES IN CHARGE, IT’S NOT A DEMOCRACY
Jiang Jinquan, the head of the Policy Research Office of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee, gave a five-minute speech on Friday where he criticized the U.S. for trying to export its kind of flawed democratic system. “Democracy is not an exclusive patent of Western countries and even less should it be defined or dictated...
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MYANMAR GOVERNMENT ACCUSES DEPOSED LEADER OF ELECTION FRAUD
After nearly a year since the military coup in Myanmar deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s electoral commission announced Tuesday that she—along with 15 other top civilian leaders—has been charged with election fraud. UPI, citing reports out of the country, said the 76-year-old has been charged with falsely adding names to voter lists...
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RUSSIA’S PUTIN WON’T BEND TO U.S. TENSIONS. WHAT’S NEXT?
Over the past few weeks, U.S. and western governments and their media have been hyping up the fear that the “Russians are Coming, The Russian Are Coming”… to invade Ukraine. There have been numerous reports that Russia is building up its troops at the Ukraine border. In response, the U.S. sent warships in the Black...
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MODI LOSES, FARMERS WIN. A MEGA-TREND BEYOND INDIA
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday announced that his government will repeal the farm laws that resulted in deadly year-long protests by farmers who claimed the legislation would crush their livelihood. “Today, I beg the forgiveness of my countrymen and say with a pure heart and honest mind that perhaps there were some shortcomings,”...
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BELARUS VS. EU: AND THE WINNER IS?
Poland and Brussels, as of late, seem to make strange bedfellows. The European Union has been fierce in its criticism of a recent court ruling in Warsaw that Brussels claims run counter to its standards for nations. The disagreement grew to the point where there were rumors that Poland could plan to leave the union....
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BLINKEN BELLOWS: U.S. COMMITTED TO UKRAINE’S SOVEREIGNTY IS ‘IRONCLAD’
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken promised his Ukrainian counterpart that America’s support for Kyiv is “ironclad” amid new tensions with Russia, saying the “international community will see through any Russian effort to resort to its previous tactics.” The Trends Journal has covered the tension in the region extensively. (See “U.S. VOWS UKRAINE SUPPORT,” “PUTIN...
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CHILEAN PRESIDENT IMPEACHED: ANOTHER BILLIONAIRE DIRTY DEALER?
Sebastián Piñera, the billionaire president of Chile, was impeached last Tuesday by the lower house of Chile’s congress over allegations that his family benefited financially from a mining deal made possible by his government’s intervention. The Pandora Papers were released in October and contained leaked documents showing that Piñera used offshore companies in the British...
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NICARAGUAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: THE NEW SOUTH AMERICA?
To the disdain of Washington—which has a century’s long track record of stealing land, launching overthrows, assassinations, occupations across South and Latin America—Nicaraguans earlier this month voted overwhelmingly to keep Daniel Ortega as President. Now in his fourth term, there are reports by “outside observers” that the election was marred by political arrests, intimidation, and...