Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Putin made the mistake of thinking that he would get Ukraine to turn its gaze towards Russia and forget about the West by massing troops on the Ukrainian border. In his gamble, he considered that he had more time to pressure the …
Antonio Navalón Models become exhausted. Empires collapse—everything changes. As if we didn’t have enough with hyperinflation or what the Covid-19 pandemic has meant, the world has been holding its breath again in the last few weeks. The word “war” has appeared again as something probable …
Antonio Navalón I have had a weakness and intellectual curiosity for the Russian soul for many years now. To find people so sentimental and violent at the same time is a difficult task. The Tsar was its maximum emblem and the expression par excellence of …
A Conversation with Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore. Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says tensions over Taiwan risk leading to a miscalculation between the U.S. and China as both nations step up activity around the island. “I don’t think it’s going …
Antonio Navalón Within a few hours of each other in the Southern Cone and the Caribbean, two elections have been held that mark and reflect the moment the Americas are going through. On the one hand, there is Chile, a country in which, with a …
Antonio Navalón Last November 8, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held its sixth plenary meeting in Beijing to take stock of its achievements and trajectory in its one hundred years of history. But above all, it was also to determine and …
Luis Rubio Brexit is not the sole challenge that the European Union (EU) faces. Although the United Kingdom was always an awkward partner, there are other nations that engender permanent tensions. Some obvious cases include those of regions seeking autonomy, such as Catalonia, but in …
The countries’ leaders that form the CUSMA, USMCA, T-MEC will meet for the first time. Three countries agreed to lift trade barriers promoting a regional economic integration. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came into force on January 1, 1994. Canada, Mexico, and the …
Manuel Suárez Mier The number of registered Washington lobbyists was 12,000 in 2019. One of the fascinating aspects of living in Washington is observing how it works, and the rituals that characterize a city where power is tangible and the means to approach it are …
Antonio Navalón Undoubtedly, the following change of season is destined to be a very particular and different one from those seen previously. Not only because, as William Shakespeare once said, it may be the winter of our discontent, but also because, basically and as things …