Has China changed in the last few years? Some travel observations

Has China changed in the last few years? Some travel observations

© Jan Oberg “Biking Mom in Xian” Collage – 2023 Thore Vestby TFF Board member September 27, 2023 Certainly, China has evolved continually and progressively, step by step. My expectations were high when I visited this autumn, my first trip post-pandemic. Between 2015 and 2020, I had visited this vast country almost 20 times. Each […]

The great transition: Non-alignment and the rise of the global south

The great transition: Non-alignment and the rise of the global south

Khalid Malik* August 8, 2023 In the 17th century, Ming China represented roughly one-third of global output, and Mughal India a little less. Together the two countries accounted for more than half of the world’s output, with a corresponding size of populations (as a proportion of the total global population). By the 1950s, Mao China […]

Towards a new peace and security thinking for the multi-polar, cooperative and peaceful world

Towards a new peace and security thinking for the multi-polar, cooperative and peaceful world

A major peace publishing event across cultures: The cover story of the esteemed “China Investment” Magazine’s July 2023 edition Jan Oberg July 23, 2023 Can you imagine a leading economics, finance and investment magazine in the Western world publishing a 30 A4-page (10 000 words) article about the future peace and security world order – […]

NATO in Vilnius: We’ve dropped you, Ukraine! One more PR event on the way to split and dissolution

NATO in Vilnius: We’ve dropped you, Ukraine! One more PR event on the way to split and dissolution

Jan Oberg July 12, 2023 – the day NATO’s Vilnius Summit ended. • 1 NATO is not going to let Ukraine in as a full member. Probably never. All the statements about getting it in and its rightful place in NATO is sugar-coating. NATO cannot say that but knows now that its ill-considered promise in […]

The Problem of Peaceful Societies for the Belief in the Necessity of War

The Problem of Peaceful Societies for the Belief in the Necessity of War

David SwansonWorld Beyond War & TFF Associate June 12, 2023 For any given war, one can examine the months or years or decades during which one or both sides worked diligently to make it happen, and both sides conspicuously failed to develop peaceful alternatives. Even in the moment of greatest violence, one can consider the […]

Harper’s Magazine: Why Are We in Ukraine?

Harper’s Magazine: Why Are We in Ukraine?

The US/Western media of various kinds increasingly raise critical questions about the NATO expansion and the NATO/EU countries’ response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Although it is “too little and years too late,” one must appreciate this trend – if for no other reason than that it may eventually contribute to stopping the militarist […]

A Russian Voice: US foreign policy is an advanced smartphone with a weak battery

A Russian Voice: US foreign policy is an advanced smartphone with a weak battery

Andrey Kortunov June 5, 2023 A Quad summit meeting in Sydney scheduled for May 24 was abruptly cancelled. The US president had to pull out of his long-anticipated trip to Australia and Papua New Guinea. Instead, the heads of the four Quad member states got together on the margins of the G7 Summit in Hiroshima […]

G7 in Hiroshima – Milestone of Western decline?

G7 in Hiroshima – Milestone of Western decline?

Waving goodbye? Not agreeing whether to wave at the world or not… Words. Words. Words. And words missing. Jan Oberg June 1, 2023 The G7 countries’ share of the global GDP has fallen from about 70% in the 1960s, to 46% in 2019, to 31% in 2021 and is projected to fall to 28% in […]

Edward Curtin: There Is No Escape From Telling

Edward Curtin: There Is No Escape From Telling

Edward Curtin May 30, 2023 By the lake’s lapping shore above the town and the railroad tracks, my wife and I stopped and marveled, struck stone silent by two dazzling Baltimore Orioles, clawed together as they tumbled, wrestling in the green morning breeze above our heads. They perched upon a branch and sang a morning hymn, […]

A Russian Voice: Can Russia really break away from The West?

A Russian Voice: Can Russia really break away from The West?

Source: World Atlas. Maps of Russia Ivan Timofeev May 9, 2023 Long before relations between Russia and the West spiralled into a comprehensive political crisis, officials and experts here were enthusiastically voicing ideas about developing ties with the rest of the world. At the administrative level, such a course began to take shape as early […]

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