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The Belt and Road Initiative diversifies the paths of cooperation with CELAC

5 min read Juan Enrique Serrano Moreno 0 comments

Juan Enrique Serrano Moreno
During the fourth ministerial meeting of the China-CELAC Forum, held on May 13, 2025, in Beijing, Latin American governments articulated a new vision for engagement with China. The future of the BRI in the region will depend not only on Chinese financing and technical expertise, but also on the capacity of Latin American countries to design inclusive development strategies and build effective institutional frameworks. The challenge now is to move from diplomatic declarations to transformative action, and turn the partnership into shared prosperity.

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Israel promotes sectarianism and advocates for the partition of Syria

3 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON 0 comments

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
With the fall of al-Assad in December, a kind of floodgates were opened, which Israel is exploiting with the various minorities—Druze, Kurds, and even Alawites—fomenting sectarianism and nationalism among these groups in order to achieve the partition of Syria, a goal acknowledged by Minister Smotrich.

Behind these movements lies the struggle between Netanyahu and Turkish President Recept Tayyip Erdogan for regional hegemony. Both leaders desire control over Syria, but while the latter seeks the continuation of the so-called political Islam that Sharaa advocates in a united Syria, the former wants a weak, divided, and unstructured Syria that is truly loyal to the Zionist state.

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Side…. which side?

5 min read XULIO RIOS 0 comments

XULIO RIOS
The barrage of criticism surrounding Pedro Sánchez's recent trip to China has been surprising. They say it's not "our side," that "there's more to Asia" than China (although the mission also included Vietnam), that the timing couldn't have been worse... However, the trip was a complete success, both in terms of the current situation and the expectations it met, judging by the official assessment provided by Moncloa.

And which side are we on? That of Mr. "Neckcutter," who assigns unavoidable duties to Minister Cuerpo? Or that of Robert Palladino, chargé d'affaires of the US Embassy in Hungary, who has warned the Hungarian government to refrain from attracting Chinese investment?

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The birth of a new international order

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JEFFREY D SACHS
Writing in his cell as a political prisoner in Fascist Italy after World War I, the philosopher Antonio Gramsci famously wrote: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”

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Expulsion is getting closer

4 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
Netanyahu confirms the division of the Gaza Strip and the creation of a new corridor called the Morag Corridor, which will cross the Strip just above the city of Rafah, close to the border with Egypt. In this way, Israel will have divided the Strip into three sectors. The first, from north to south, will reach the Netzarim Corridor. The second will be between this corridor and the Morag Corridor, and the third will be between this corridor and the Philadelphia Corridor, which separates the Gaza Strip from Egypt.

Pressure on the Palestinians continues to grow, and their expulsion from Gaza depends on a decision by Donald Trump. What the prime minister is doing now is "organizing" the Strip so that the deportation can be carried out quickly.

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China on Pedro Sánchez's radar

5 min read XULIO RIOS

XULIO RIOS
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is traveling to China again to meet with President Xi Jinping. This is his third visit in the last three years, a truly unusual development and a true reflection of the importance that the Spanish government places on its relationship with China, as an expression of a significant rebalancing of Spanish foreign policy based on the strategic interest of strengthening economic and diplomatic relations with Beijing.

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Two sessions 2025: A China focused on its roadmap

16 min read XULIO RIOS 0 comments

XULIO RIOS
China will continue to focus on managing its economy and strengthening its capabilities in all areas to achieve the desired high-quality development, taking a long-term view of this endeavour, with a view to 2035. At the international level, the commitment to multilateralism will strengthen the rapprochement not only with the Global South, but also opens up expectations of the involvement of other actors interested in a greater balance of power in interstate relations, capable of facing the profound global challenges that the current Trump administration addresses with total disdain.

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Bibi Netanyahu's juggling act

4 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON 0 comments

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
Netanyahu knows that as long as the war is not over, there will be an important pretext to justify its continuation and the non-calling of elections. He repeatedly declares that the circumstances are not yet in place to proclaim the “total victory” that he promised the Israelis more than a year ago and which includes the complete disappearance of Hamas.

He claims that the day after the war ends, Hamas should be absent from the Strip, not only as a militia but also as a political entity. However, to this day, the Islamic Resistance Movement maintains its influence in all the territorial sectors of the Strip that the Israeli army has abandoned.

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The Gaza 'war' was a lie, just like the ceasefire. Trump just told you so

14 min read JONATHAN COOK

JONATHAN COOK
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to the White House this week broke the mask of 16 months of gaslighting by Western leaders and the entire Western establishment media. US President Donald Trump has finally stopped sugar-coating Israel's genocidal destruction of Gaza. Trump has dropped Washington's sugar-coating of Israel's 15-month-long genocidal destruction of Gaza. It was always about ethnic cleansing.

It was always, he told us, a massacre made in the USA. In his words, Washington will now “take over” Gaza and develop it. And the aim of the massacre was always ethnic cleansing. The Palestinians, he said, would be “settled” in a place where they would not have to be “worried about dying every day” – that is, killed by Israel with US-supplied bombs. Gaza, meanwhile, would become the “Riviera of the Middle East”, with the “people of the world” – he meant rich whites like himself – living in luxury beachfront estates instead.

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The farce of the ceasefire

9 min read CHRIS HEDGES

CHRIS HEDGES
For decades, Israel has been playing tricks. It signs an agreement with the Palestinians that is to be implemented in phases. The first phase gives Israel what it wants – in this case, the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza – but Israel routinely fails to implement the subsequent phases that would lead to a just and equitable peace. In the end, it provokes the Palestinians with indiscriminate armed attacks to get them to retaliate, defines a Palestinian response as a provocation, and abrogates the ceasefire agreement to reignite the killing.

If this latest three-phase ceasefire agreement is ratified - and there is no certainty that it will be by Israel - it will, I hope, be little more than a pause in the bombing of the presidential inauguration. Israel has no intention of stopping its merry-go-round of death.

America Asia U.S. Principal2

Bibi and Trump beyond the agreement with Hamas

4 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
The relationship between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu is truly peculiar. One is 78 years old and the other 75. One has amassed a huge fortune while the other is reluctantly content with a more modest fortune. One is beginning his second term as president of the most powerful country in the world and the other is approaching the end of his political career with great power but licking his wounds from the war in Gaza.

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Aníbal Garzón: The Western media strategy against the BRICS is based on censorship and contempt

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JAYRO SANCHEZ
Aníbal Garzón is a political analyst specializing in international relations. He has worked as a volunteer in several African and Latin American countries for more than 5 years. He has just published BRICS. The transition towards an alternative world order (Akal, 2024), where he analyzes the importance of emerging countries in this changing world.