Tag: West

Is Belarus the next serious threat to the West?

- Chas Newkey-Burden -

Belarus would be willing to use nuclear weapons in the face of foreign “aggression”, said the country’s president, Alexander Lukashenko. Europe’s longest-serving leader warned that if he felt provoked by neighbouring Nato nations like Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, he would “immediately respond with everything we have”, including the nuclear weapons Moscow

Cambodia more than ever squeezed between Russia and the West

- Kris Janssens, IPS -

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen walks into a diplomatic minefield these days. He supports UN resolutions against Putin but does not want to jeopardize the long-standing friendship with Russia. At the same time, he tries to be less dependent on the West, both economically and politically. Last month, Cambodia backed the

Reading China wrong: A hundred year old Western problem

- Afsan Chowdhury -

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is now 100 years old and celebrating it. That’s great news for the Party. However it’s not so great for the West who had been waiting for its demise since its birth. Worse, conventional wisdom about how socialism and capitalism behaves and that it can