South Korea Congressional Election Focuses on Taiwan, Not Green Onions: Analysis

South Korea Congressional Election Focuses on Taiwan, Not Green Onions: Analysis

2024/04/08 16:56 South Korea held a congressional election on the 10th. Chosun Ilbo believed that the core of the election was Taiwan, not green onions. (Reuters) [Compiled by Wei Guojin/Taipei Report]South Korea will hold a congressional election on the 10th. Representative Lee Jae-ming, the leader of South Korea’s largest opposition Democratic Party, the Democratic Party, … Read more

The ‘doomsday clock’ places humanity 90 seconds away from the apocalypse, the worst record in its history | Science

The ‘doomsday clock’ places humanity 90 seconds away from the apocalypse, the worst record in its history |  Science

There are 90 seconds left until the end of the world. Before running to the nuclear shelter, you should know that, although disturbing, this is nothing more than a symbolic calculation carried out each year by a committee convened by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. It is one of those traditions (like the January slope, … Read more

Oil and Gas Companies Make Concessions on Methane and Emissions at COP28 Conference

Oil and Gas Companies Make Concessions on Methane and Emissions at COP28 Conference

“Many more oil and gas companies made concessions on methane and emissions for the first time. Our final agreement talks about fossil fuels.” This was announced last year at the closing plenary session of COP28 by the president of the conference, Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber, who is also the head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil … Read more

Belarus Tightening Grip of Russia: Implications for Latvia’s National Security

Belarus Tightening Grip of Russia: Implications for Latvia’s National Security

Since the 2020 presidential elections in Belarus, which were accompanied by mass protests and the results of which are not recognized as legitimate by Western countries, this country has come under the tight grip of Russia. Beate Livdanska, a researcher at the Center for Eastern European Policy Studies, notes in the TVNET program “Pulss” that, … Read more

Geopolitical tensions and interest rates set to make 2024 another turbulent year for global economy

Geopolitical tensions and interest rates set to make 2024 another turbulent year for global economy

As geopolitical tensions rise and interest rates remain at elevated levels, 2024 will be another turbulent year for the global economy. This is especially true for emerging markets, which managed to avoid the crisis in 2023, but may find it difficult to do so again if global growth does not live up to expectations. In … Read more

Palestinian Perspectives on Israel’s War: Voices of Raya, Rania, and Riyadh

Palestinian Perspectives on Israel’s War: Voices of Raya, Rania, and Riyadh

Published on December 22, 2023 at 06:00. / Modified on December 22, 2023 at 4:43 p.m. We brought together three Palestinians to tell us how they feel about the war waged by the State of Israel. A war which, in their eyes, did not begin on October 7 but well before, with colonization which has … Read more

NASA’s Mars Sample Return Project: Cost, Challenges, and Scientific Importance

NASA’s Mars Sample Return Project: Cost, Challenges, and Scientific Importance

It could cost the American and European space agencies up to 11 billion dollars to deliver a handful of Martian rock samples to Earth, according to a NASA-invited independent investigation committee in September reported meaningwhich criticized the plans of the US space agency on several points, but considered the return of Martian samples scientifically sound … Read more

Geopolitics: Analyzing the Battle between “Land Power” and “Sea Power”

Geopolitics: Analyzing the Battle between “Land Power” and “Sea Power”

What kind of study is geopolitics? According to economic commentator Tsukasa Jonen, “As a foundation of modern geopolitics, there is an idea that the countries of the world are in a confrontational structure between ‘land power’ and ‘sea power.’ In this case, for Japan, which is a sea power, South Korea, which stands between China … Read more

The BRICS: A Growing Alternative to the G7 and Western World Bank

The BRICS: A Growing Alternative to the G7 and Western World Bank

EPA/AFPLula (Brazil), Putin (Russia), Modi (India), Xi Jinping (China), Ramaphosa (South Africa) NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 21:18 Soehayla Halouchi editor online Soehayla Halouchi editor online Almost ten years ago, the largest emerging economies started their own World Bank. About forty countries are now queuing up to join the BRICS, a collaboration between Brazil, Russia, India, China and … Read more

“China’s Use of Russia’s Vladivostok Port for Trade: Significance and Complexities”

“China’s Use of Russia’s Vladivostok Port for Trade: Significance and Complexities”

The headline of an article published on the website of French newspaper Le Monde on Thursday pointed out that Russia allows China to use the port of Vladivostok (Vladivostok) engaged in domestic trade. Le Monde Beijing correspondent Lemaitre (Frédéric Lemaître and Moscow correspondent Benoît Vitkine wrote in an article that for a few days, Chinese … Read more