The growth of the African continent has always been a topic of great interest among economic and financial analysts.
NEW YORK — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met his German counterpart, Johann Wadephul, on the sidelines of the 81st United Nations General Assembly on September 26
A history of South Korea I recently read is titled *Shrimp to Whale* by Ramon Pacheco Pardo. The title alludes to a Korean proverb stating that when whales fight, the shrimp’s back gets broken.
For four and a half centuries, the world’s default map made Europe and North America look larger than they are and the global south smaller.
Let us turn, however, to the situation in East Asia. On August 12, Putin visited Iturup Island in the Kuril chain—touring a fish processing plant and some schools—an event that sparked quite a controversy, so to speak.
It began with one sentence a prime minister didn’t need to say. Ten months later, Japan and China are locked in their worst rupture in a generation.
Nearly 800 people are dead in eastern DRC, American diplomats are barred from traveling, and the deal meant to loosen China’s grip on the world’s most important battery metals has quietly moved to conference rooms in London and Brussels.