Panel discussion on CGTN’s Dialogue with Xu Qinduo July 4, 2024 Of course, you have heard nothing about these globally important Five Principles in the Western mainstream press – whereas it will fill you with NATO propaganda around July 9-11, 2024, when the alliance celebrates its 75th Anniversary. TFF’s director, Jan Oberg, was honoured to […]
June 25, 2024 Much to our surprise – and a great honour – TFF, through Jan Oberg, has been invited to attend and speak at the conference commemorating the 70th anniversary of the initiation of the famous Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence. The Five Principles, as stated in the Sino–Indian Agreement 1954, are: • mutual […]
Jan Oberg June 18, 2024 It can safely be assumed that NATO leaders and their media don’t care much about what the President of Serbia, Александар Вучић – Aleksandar Vučić, has to say about the NATO-Russia conflict and the war in Ukraine. Not only do they think that they know everything better than anyone else, […]
This is an urgently important initiative by the Geneva International Peace Research Institute, GIPRI. Two TFF Associates – Professor Richard Falk and TFF director Jan Oberg – have signed it. The initiative needs the widest possible readership. Over the past 48 hours, no Western mainstream media has found it newsworthy. So much for the free […]
It is the West that has peaked, not China Li Xing & Jan Oberg May 24, 2024 Published in China Daily Global – 2024-05-20 08:00 TFF recommends that, when you have read this article, you browse China Daily and get a feel for this distinguished newspaper and what to learnfrom it about China and China’s […]
Now his caring daughter needs your help. Jan Oberg May 17, 2024 Johan Galtung – my dear mentor, colleague, TFF Associate and friend over 50 years – died on February 17, this year in Norway, his native country. Sadly, he did not die in a way he – or anybody else for that matter – […]
Jan Oberg May 16, 2024 This is a column from May 5, 2024, in The China Daily Chinese and Western ways of thinking are complementary not mutually exclusive We learn about other cultures mostly through the media and through books, films, travels and personal encounters. All news reports are micro glimpses of a time and […]
The world famous Swedish-based flagship institute stopped doing peace research long ago. To be honest, it ought to change its name. Below is a proposal. Jan Oberg April 23, 2024 When NATO turned 75, the director of SIPRI – formally, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – Dan Smith wrote this diplomatic wishy-washy essay about the […]
April 22, 2024 Jan Oberg’s 19-minute lecture held at the Memorial Conference marking the 25th anniversary of NATO’s unlawful bombing of Yugoslavia. Recorded on March 23, 2024. He first tells why he was in Belgrade during the bombing and then explains how that bombing was a turning point towards the new multipolar – and better […]
Jan Oberg April 8, 2024 This 7-minute video was shot by The China Academy in January 2024, posted on Wave Media on YouTube and then picked up by Taiwan’s CTi News and the Chinese Global Times magazine. This means a very large audience. Here is the link to see the many comments it created. I’m […]