When Japan signed the Instrument of Surrender on September 2nd 1945, the moment marked China’s great triumph over the occupying power. Things had not been easy in the time leading to the event though. For one thing, this particular resistance was the longest standing against fascism anywhere in the world (having started in 1931). To […]
The Ukrainian war is not only a war between Ukraine and Russia. It is a war between the U.S./NATO and Russia. Ukraine is simply the battleground. And the Ukrainian army is doing the U.S./NATO’s bidding. The U.S., having gathered lessons from wars it has lost in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq and Vietnam, calculated that if […]
One of the greatest instruments for waging war are the tools of mass propaganda. The West, i.e., the USA and NATO nations, are armed to the teeth with these. They control international news and feed audiences with anti-Russian/ anti-Putin propaganda dressed as journalism. Thus, they blame the war in Ukraine entirely on Russia. They also […]
The American political scientist, Graham Allison, popularised the concept famously known as the “Thucydides Trap.” This concept suggests that whenever a rising power threatens to displace an established one, the tension often guarantees a conflict will arise (war), unless deliberate efforts are made to avoid it. The concept borrows its name from Thucydides (c. 460-400 […]
Are Washington and Brussels overreacting toward Russia when it comes to it’s actions in Ukraine? There is a high likelihood that the European Union and the United States are very biased with how they have handled Russia since the escalation of the situation in Ukraine in 2022. At the moment, there are about 57 major […]
Throughout history, a combination of adversity and necessity have always been the scene for radical shifts in human perspectives; a fundamental for real transformation. This is regardless of whether one is looking at the role of the black death on medicine in Europe or America’s seclusion vis-à-vis its rapid industrialization- what Edmund Burke once described […]
Evidence shows that fragile peace is a significant handicap to prosperity in many parts of the world. In the horn of Africa, a region where peace has mostly been elusive, the Horn of Africa peace and development conference (HoAPDC) emerges as a link between China’s Global Security Initiative (GSI) and the UN SDG-16 on peace, […]
Different political scientists have argued that the market reforms implemented in China, which explain its great economic success today, were engineered and inherited from Mao Zedong’s theory and practice in guerrilla tactics, which premise flexibility as a key strategy in any exercise. I want to share my thoughts on this idea and argue against the […]
In the gardens of the Chinese Embassy in Uganda a huge banner hangs, and beside it the Chinese and Ugandan flags were, “1927 – 2025, The Chinese People’s Liberation Army” the banner read on the 25th of July 2025. Zhang Lizhong, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the Republic of Uganda hosted a reception celebrating the […]
For the past two decades or so, it has become fashionable for leaders in the west to claim that China’s approach towards Africa is that of colonialism. Being that Africans have perspectives of their own on this issue though, it has become imperative to say how it is it that they view it– and they […]