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Milei goes for everything and against everyone

13 min read CECILIA VALDEZ 0 comments

CECILIA VALDEZ
The surplus hides an adjustment that has slowed consumption, destroyed salaries, increased rates, punished one of the most vulnerable sectors of society - the retirees - and fueled a time bomb in a country where more than half of the population is poor (57%).
Many of those who supported him (and still support him) are beginning to question the deadlines. The great unknown is whether Argentine society will be able to find some coordinated response to such an onslaught.

Archived Asia Merunas UAB U.S.

The road to Ma Ying-jeou's house

5 min read XULIO RIOS 0 comments

XULIO RIOS
Ma Ying-jeou's trip to mainland China takes place just over a month after the inauguration of Lai Ching-te, who will take over from Tsai Ing-wen on May 20, and in a context marked by the reaffirmation of the two paths that define the Taiwanese crossroads: irreducible hostility towards an independence movement without a majority on the island, but with notable international support and, alternatively, the establishment of bridges that help preserve and develop the ties between Beijing and Taipei with the perspective of peaceful reunification.

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Ramadan risks in the heart of Jerusalem

3 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON 0 comments

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
With the beginning of Ramadan, the occupied sector of Jerusalem has become a true military and police barracks, and something similar has happened with all the territories of the occupied West Bank, where these days 24 battalions of soldiers are deployed in charge of protecting Jewish colonies from Palestinian attacks.

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The judicial farce against Julian Assange

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FABIAN SCHEIDLER
If the US authorities manage to convict a journalist for exposing war crimes, this would have another serious consequence. In the future, it would be even more difficult and dangerous to expose the sordid reality of wars, especially those wars that Western governments like to sell as civilizing missions with the help of embedded journalists. If we don't know the truth about these wars, it will be much easier to fight them.

Archived Asia Merunas UAB U.S. USA/Europe

NATO breaks its historic promises and expands to Russia's doorstep

6 min read Jayro sanchez 0 comments

JAYRO SANCHEZ
Former US President George HW Bush and the last leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Mikhail Gorbachev, organized their first face-to-face meeting in early December 1989. The meeting was held in one of the cabins of the cruise liner Máxim Gorki, anchored near the port of the Maltese town of Marsaxlokk due to the strong storms that raged the waters of the central Mediterranean during those days.

Archived Asia Merunas UAB

The resilience of the Chinese economy

6 min read Elda Molina Diaz and Eduardo Regalado 0 comments

ELDA MOLINA DÍAZ AND EDUARDO REGALADO
The Chinese economy has shown a great capacity for resilience and development potential by more than meeting its growth objective, despite the complex challenges it has had to face internally and externally. The growth of new sectors linked to technological development has been compensating for the drop in the contribution of the real estate and other traditional sectors.

China is not free from internal and external economic challenges, but the country's economic fundamentals are solid, giving its government ample policy space to address its current economic slowdown, while its industrial development has positioned it well to the future.

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Gestures of complicity between Spain and China with a European perspective

5 min read XULIO RIOS 0 comments

XULIO RIOS
The recent visit of the Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, to Spain has left important messages. The first, the outstretched hand, the willingness to continue promoting bilateral cooperation at all levels. For Beijing, Spain continues to be a “good and reliable partner.” The absence of conflict is a notable characteristic of Spanish-Chinese relations.

Archived U.S. USA/Europe Europe

The data that shows who is winning the Ukrainian war two years later

9 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0 comments

PASCUAL SERRANO
Two years after the start of the Ukrainian war, we will hear all kinds of versions about who is winning the war. Some will say that Ukraine is winning because Russia has not fulfilled its dream of taking kyiv in a few weeks, as it intended at the beginning. Others will say that it is Russia that, little by little, is triumphing because Western sanctions have proven useless, military support from the United States is running out and the advances on the front in recent months are from the Russian army in the face of a Ukrainian counteroffensive. that showed itself to be a failure. But I will be the one to tell you who is really winning the war: the arms industry.

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Rwanda, the new Fachoda complex between France and Great Britain

8 min read Jayro sanchez 0 comments

JAYRO SANCHEZ
The main European states that colonized Africa, France and Great Britain, still want to maintain some kind of influence on the continent. The former has sheltered for decades several Rwandan war criminals involved in the genocide against Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 1994, and the latter maintains good relations with President Kagame despite the fact that his regime has been repeatedly accused of not respecting human rights.

Archived Asia Merunas UAB

China, a brief and concise compilation

9 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0 comments

PASCUAL SERRANO
The news from China appears skipped in the news, but perhaps it is through an adequate compilation that we can get an idea of what is happening in that country. Or rather, what is happening in the world due to what is happening in China.

The Chinese economy grew 5,2% in 2023. The consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.2 percent from the previous year. But that year the nominal increase available per capita national residents was 6.3 percent compared to the previous year, which represents 6.1 if we subtract the rise in the CPI.

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Let them eat dirt

8 min read CHRIS HEDGES 0 comments

CHRIS HEDGES
The final phase of Israel's genocide in Gaza, an orchestrated mass famine, has begun. The international community has no intention of stopping it. There was never any chance that the Israeli government would agree to a pause in fighting proposed by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, much less a ceasefire. Israel is about to deliver the final blow in its war against the Palestinians of Gaza: mass starvation. When Israeli leaders use the term "absolute victory," they mean total decimation, total elimination.

Archived Asia U.S. USA/Europe

Palestinians, close to deportation, far from the state

3 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON 0 comments

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
The first step for Jewish repopulation is to completely or partially empty the Strip of the Palestinian population, something that the army is already doing following the instructions of political leaders. The military has pushed more than half of the population towards the border with Egypt, and there are currently close to a million and a half people there waiting for what is decided to be done with them.

At the moment, Egypt does not open the border, but if necessary, if the Israeli army continues to push, deportation could be inevitable. It may not affect the entire population of Gaza, but it will affect a good part of it.