Recent Posts

China looks to stoke US-India tension over virus response

Bloomberg With the US dragging its feet in offering India help to combat the world’s worst virus crisis, China is moving to drive a wedge between the democratic security partners. In a barrage of editorials, political cartoons and social-media posts in recent days, the Communist Party-backed Global Times newspaper blasted the US for failing to provide aid while calling on ...

Read More »

Russia suspends operations of Navalny’s offices

Bloomberg Russian prosecutors ordered Alexey Navalny’s national network of campaign offices to suspend operations because of alleged “extremism,” deepening the crackdown on allies of the jailed opposition leader. The order bans the groups from posting online, organising events and using bank accounts pending a permanent court ruling, according to a copy posted in Twitter by Navalny’s allies. The Moscow City ...

Read More »

Biden’s border crisis deepens over fight with key leaders

Bloomberg Vice President Kamala Harris finds herself navigating strained relations with the leaders of Central American countries that have produced a surge of migrants to the US, vastly complicating her assignment to curb a growing humanitarian crisis on the southwest border. Most would-be immigrants are from the so-called Northern Triangle — Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador -– and their economies ...

Read More »
Send this to a friend