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A Bank of China office in Lisbon, Portugal in 2015

The Facts Behind Orbán’s Warning about the Rise of Asia

‘In 2007, the combined economy of the six European nations in our example was more than ten times larger than that of the six Asian countries. Over the past 17 years, these Asian countries have grown by over 300 per…
Vladimir Putin and Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh attend a reception marking the 85th anniversary of the victory in the 1939 Battles of Khalkhin Gol in Ulaanbaatar on 3 September 2024.

ICC’s Loss of Face in Mongolia — Why Ulaanbaatar Failed to Arrest Putin

‘Albeit few expected Mongolia to actually make the arrest, the case is nevertheless indeed a blow to the ICC’s credibility and generally to the Western institutional system. The unsurprising development of Putin walking away free exposes the fallacy of Western…
Mercenaries (VI) (cropped) by Leon Golub (1987)

The Ukraine War Goes Global: More and More Foreigners Fight on Both Sides

The war quite literally consumes people; they are killed or maimed physically and psychologically at an unprecedented rate. Using foreign fighters is consequently quite logical for both sides. They alleviate domestic pressure to recruit more soldiers, with the new fighters…
Supporters of China hold Chinese and Hungarian flags in the Buda Castle close to the route of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s motorcade prior to his meeting with Viktor Orbán on 9 May 2024 in Budapest.

Hungary’s Place in the Global Order

‘Hungary may well find, as Australia has, that trade and investment with China can create long-term vulnerabilities as well as immediate economic benefits. After Australia called for a transparent international enquiry into the origins of the Wuhan virus, the Beijing…
Albert Bierstadt, In the Sierras / Lake Tahoe (1868). Fogg Art Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Playing Second Fiddle: Europe in the Atlantic Community

‘The gradual diminishing of Europe’s importance in the eyes of the successive US administrations in the twenty-first century has been arrested by Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, and weakened the “pivot” or “rebalance” to Asia for the time being: emergencies have…
President Donald J. Trump, joined by Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, sign the U.S. China Phase One Trade Agreement in the East Room of the White House on 15 January 2020

Decoupling and Reorganization

‘If the West wants to maintain its geopolitical weight and address its internal tensions, it should focus primarily on solving its own structural problems…, rather than transforming these internal problems into a global geopolitical conflict. External conflicts and total attempts…
Caspar David Friedrich, The Abbey in the Oakwood (1809–1810). Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany

Crisis? What Crisis?

‘Just as liberalism did not succeed in transforming people after socialism, neither did the competing anti-liberal, post-Christian, nihilistic trends. The solution is certainly not political or movement-based: those had already failed by the middle of the twentieth century.’…
Mao Zedong reading the People’s Daily newspaper in Hangzhou in 1961

A Guide to Woke: What Can We Learn from the ‘Three Red Banners’ Experiment?

‘The influence of Mao’s Cultural Revolution can indeed be seen as haunting Western universities today. In some respects, Western universities are now experiencing what Eastern European institutions endured under communism.’…
People in pirogues navigate their way in the slum community of Makoko in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, on 19 October 2022

The Geopolitics of the Demographic Shift

‘The demographic shift also suggests a move towards an increasingly multipolar world order. Not bipolar, but multipolar. While the West’s demographic weight is rapidly declining, so is that of its main opponent, China, and to such an extent that its…
Chinese President Xi Jinping (CL) and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (CR) stand in front of the Carmelita Monastery in Budapest prior to their official talks on 9 May 2024.

Why Is Hungary Turning to China? A Cultural Theory

‘It seems to me that Orbán sees his people as having a greater chance of surviving the disintegration of the West by forming ties to China. He might be proven wrong by history. But make no mistake: the dilemma facing…

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