Hartmut Bühl, European News Journal, Paris Chinese President Xi Jinping’s dreams of establishing a new world order without American dominance and prioritising the “Global South” took tangible form at the 25th Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), bringing together more than 20 leaders of non-Western countries in Tianjin, China,…
By SINEAD O’SULLIVAN – Space and Defence economist, Boston President Trump’s fiscal year 2026 budget proposal would slash NASA’s funding from roughly $25bn in 2025 to just $18.8bn—a reduction of nearly 25%. Science programs would bear the brunt, with nearly half of all Earth‑ and space‑science missions on the chopping block. Such deep cuts threaten…
We asked General (ret.) JEAN-MARC VIGILANT, Paris HARTMUT BÜHL – European News Journal, Paris US President Donald Trump declared after the NATO summit in The Hague that he had achieved a “monumental win for the United States” by securing a commitment from European NATO countries to spend an unprecedented 5%…
By our Asia correspondent HIDESHI TOKUCHI – President of the Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS), Tokyo Japan’s neighbourhood is an increasingly unstable region with the potential for conflict. Three powers in the region have nuclear weapons: Russia, China and North Korea. As China and North Korea have been…
