Three Demands for Chinese Good Weather

Twelve years ago in autumn, the Year of the Ox according to the traditional Chinese horoscope and a year after the massive 2008 financial crisis, then US President Barack Obama went to Beijing to propose a mega deal to China. It was a pact about the environment that could include technology transfer from the US to China. The pact didn’t gain traction in China and was finally scuttled at the climate conference in Copenhagen that December.

A Jordanian Diplomat With Development Expertise Will Lead UN Women

Sima Sami Bahous, Jordan’s ambassador to the United Nations until recently, pictured in 2019. She is to be appointed executive director of UN Women, succeeding Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka of South Africa and the third person, after Michelle Bachelet of Chile, to hold the post since the agency’s founding in 2010. UNAOC

La enmienda del fatal error de Moscú

Hace más de 30 años, en mayo de 1988, las tropas soviéticas iniciaron su retirada de Afganistán. Aquella operación duró nueve meses y al lado de la caótica espantada de Estados Unidos y sus vasallos de este agosto, fue una operación impecable