And its positive attitude to the West Jan Oberg Shanghai, China, September 16, 2024 When travelling around China, one of many things to note is that the Chinese are very positive toward the West, make use of Western inspirations, and know much more about the West than Westerners know about China.This is quite remarkable because, […]
Jan Oberg July 26, 2024 In its recent analysis – “How Four US Presidents Unleashed Economic Warfare Across the Globe” – The Washington Post illustrates what I have called “sanctionitis” – the disease of (over)using sanctions as a means to conduct foreign policy and cause great harm to the world economy, the US economy but […]
Jan Oberg July 16, 2024 On July 11, 2024, after the NATO Washington Summit, Global Times in Beijing was so kind as to publish my comparative thoughts on the famous Five Principles on Peaceful Coexistence – just celebrated in Beijing – and five principles I have extracted from NATO’s concepts and policies. Quite a contrast! […]
Jan Oberg July 7, 2024 TFF Associate, Professor Chaiwat Satha-Anand has died at 69: Professor of nonviolence who opened path to peace in Thailand Noblest and kindest among – and for – humanity. TFF Associate since 1991 and a dear friend of Christina and me since before that, a great scholar of nonviolence, a mediator […]
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 – […]