Syrian army maintains whirlwind pace of its advance, liberating in 2 months more territory than it controlled in September 2015, and practically completing encirclement of ISIS fighters in central Syria.
As predicted by The Duran Chinese diplomacy and Chinese warnings have forced Washington and Pyongyang to stop the ‘war of words’ which was escalating the crisis in the north Pacific.
In telephone conversation with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel reportedly backs China’s proposal for a ‘double freeze’ of North Korean ballistic missile and nuclear weapons tests in return for a cessation of US military exercises in South Korea.
Massive article in New Yorker asserting Guccifer 2.0 was a Russian intelligence front and the source of the DNC and Podesta emails published by Wikileaks is riddled with unwarranted claims and assumptions and fails to convince.
Faster growth in output against a background of rapidly falling inflation and higher saving
Reacting to US sanctions law imposing further sanctions on Iran, Iran’s parliament defies US by voting to increase spending on ballistic missiles and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps.
Crack in German consensus on sanctions as Christine Lindner head of Germany’s FDP says sanctions policy has failed and time has come to face reality by recognising Crimea as Russian.
Chinese President Xi Jinping follows up China’s warning it will defend North Korea from US attack by telling US President Trump to calm down and work with China to achieve a peaceful solution to the crisis.
Backchannel between middle rank US and North Korean diplomats established in New York, making opening the way to a possible breakthrough in relations like the one between the US and China in the 1970s.
President Trump’s threats against North Korea conceal the absence of any US intention to attack that country. All they do is play into Kim Jong-un’s hands.
North Korea far from being a Chinese “attack dog” or satellite is a vehemently independent country, which China is trying to rein in. US threats are simply making that more difficult.
Editorial in Chinese official newspaper Global Times sets out China’s red lines: China will intervene in event of US invasion of North Korea to prevent regime change there
Commentaries in China’s official media show growing Chinese anger at US grandstanding and intransigence on the North Korean issue.
The alternative to negotiations with North Korea is an uncontrolled nuclear arms race in the north Pacific with an adversary whose capabilities the US has repeatedly and grossly underestimated and which it knows next to nothing about.
$13 billion of capital outflow in the 5 months to July was a necessary correction to the excessive capital inflow which happened before
Advanced fighter jet now being tested with new engine and being referred to as “SU-57”
There may be grounds to bring a prosecution on the grounds that soliciting the leaks where an incitement to commit law-breaking, defeating the traditional defences available to the press under the First Amendment and the public interest defence.
The West’s contrasting response: indifference when Saakashvili is stripped by Ukraine of his citizenship to prevent him standing in elections; sympathy for Navalny in Russia despite his fraud convictions.
Shocked at US disregard for Europe’s economic interests Europe’s energy businesses step up their criticism of the new sanctions law.
Details provided of new heavy transport aircraft to replace AN-124