Author: Christine Schier

In his first speech in the Bundestag as Germany’s Economy and Climate Minister, Robert Habeck of the Greens confirmed his ideologically-driven agenda. In view of rising energy prices, he said, Germany must become less dependent on raw material imports, and to achieve this, renewable energies from wind and sun would have to be expanded much faster than planned. He blamed […]

Following the attempt to launch to launch a regime change operation in Kazakstan earlier this month, much more information has emerged on how the international operation worked (cf. SAS 2/22). Once the popular protests, originally directed against soaring gasoline prices, turned violent, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev quickly called on the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) to help quell the well-prepared […]

China kicked off its diplomatic activity for the new year, as is traditional, in Africa. This year, it began with the “Initiative of Peaceful Development in the Horn of Africa,” a region plagued by civil war, terrorism and a humanitarian catastrophe. The policy was presented by Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi during his four-day visit to Eritrea, […]

At an event in Damascus last week, Syria announced its participation in the Belt and Road Initiative through a memorandum of understanding signed by Syrian Planning and International Cooperation Authority Chair Fadi al-Khalil and the Chinese Ambassador to Syria, Feng Biao. The agreement follows Xi Jinping’s phone call with Syrian President Assad in November, and Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s trip […]