Tag: geopolitics
Omicron wave stirs suspicion towards the stationed US armed forces
Tokyo The Covid 19 pandemic in Japan had paused for three months. But now Asia’s oldest industrial nation is also being flooded by the new, highly infectious Omicron variant –…
Japan, Australia and the USA are moving closer together militarily
Tokyo The US, Japan and Australia want to face China’s growing military power as allies. Last week, not only Japan and the USA agreed on closer cooperation. Japan and Australia…
The USA, Australia & Japan warn China against invasion
Japanese coast If Taiwan fell to China, Japan’s rival could control the ocean, disrupting Japan’s major shipping routes. (Photo: imago images / ZUMA Wire) Tokyo, Bangkok, Berlin The world looks…
The USA, Australia & Japan warn China against invasion
Japanese coast If Taiwan fell to China, Japan’s rival could control the ocean, disrupting Japan’s major shipping routes. (Photo: imago images / ZUMA Wire) Tokyo, Bangkok, Berlin The world looks…
Biden warns Putin of the enormous economic consequences of invading Ukraine
Brussels, Berlin US President Joe Biden has warned Russian President Vladimir Putin of enormous damage to the Russian economy in the event of an invasion of neighboring Ukraine. This was…
Biden on the phone with Putin – traffic light is a deterrent
Brussels, Berlin If Vladimir Putin has shown anything in his long reign, it is opportunism – which in his case, however, means less the flexibility of political positions than a…
Escalation or Relaxation? Biden and Putin discuss the confrontation in Ukraine
Brussels, Berlin If Vladimir Putin has shown anything in his long reign, it is opportunism – which in his case, however, means less the flexibility of political positions than a…
Love of one’s homeland becomes a national duty
Home is not a place, but a feeling, sang rock legend Herbert Grönemeyer in the late 1990s. At the time, that was also in line with the spirit of the…
Love of one’s homeland becomes a national duty
Home is not a place, but a feeling, sang rock legend Herbert Grönemeyer in the late 1990s. At the time, that was also in line with the spirit of the…
The EU produces gurgles, not a strategy
Europe column Every week Moritz Koch, head of the Handelsblatt office in Brussels, analyzes trends and conflicts, regulatory projects and strategic concepts from the inner workings of the EU. Because…
Last dress rehearsal for serious EU foreign policy
Lukashenko and Erdogan in 2019 One can regularly accuse European foreign policy of being embarrassing. The principle of unanimity in EU foreign policy has often made Brussels incapable of acting…
This is how the EU can secure its autonomy
Two years after the EU Commission President announced a “geopolitical EU Commission”, Ursula von der Leyen has now made it clearer in her State of the Union address: Europe’s infrastructure…
The interplay between the energy transition and geopolitics
The energy transformation leads to serious geopolitical upheavals. The International Organization for Renewable Energies (Irena) already showed these consequences in 2019 in the groundbreaking report “A New World”. The transformation…
New EU Arctic Policy: Race for the North Pole
Brussels The Arctic was actually supposed to be a “zone of peace”: If the polar region was a place of power demonstrations and scenarios of deterrence during the Cold War,…
Speech on climate protection, digitization and co
Ursula von der Leyen will give her second speech on the State of the European Union this Wednesday (from 9 a.m.) in the European Parliament. In addition to the consequences…
The end of the Merkel era slows down EU expansion
Chancellor Merkel and Serbian President Vučić in 2015 Integrating the Western Balkans into the international community is of central geopolitical importance for the EU. (Photo: dpa) Brussels The farewell is…