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Category Archives: asia

Those Houthi missiles: Part 1

7 May

See also, Those Houthi Missiles Part 2 Mosque damaged by a suspected Indian missile attack yesterday near Muzaffarabad in Pakistani Kashmir I’m still processing this new and terrifying escalation in seventy-eight years of hostility between the two states born of … Read More »

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South Korea – the Kiev connection

10 Dec

This week: Seoul riot police confront South Koreans demanding President Yoon Suk-yeol’s impeachment Some features of the ousting of Syria’s government by US backed terrorists are already clear, notably the gains to Washington, Tel Aviv and Ankara. Others, notably the … Read More »

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Three Sunday shorts …

17 Nov

Three video shorts, average duration twelve minutes, hand-picked by The Steel City Elders for your enlightenment and ongoing edification. They begin with the significance of Kazakhstan, western neighbour to Xinjiang, north-eastern neighbour to Afghanistan and scene of the failed US … Read More »

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On my travel bucket list – North Korea

18 Aug

Think I’ll give those “six essential books” a swerve. Like the Guardian, The Economist  can come up with good stuff on matters which don’t threaten the core concerns of the oligarchs who rule the West but, on matters which do, … Read More »

asia, economics and money, general 12 Comments

Modi in Moscow … that hospital in Kiev

12 Jul

The world is witnessing an irreversible shift to multipolarity. Four days ago I wrote of a duality now playing out between a fading – hence triply dangerous – hegemon, and the restoration of Westphalian principles of the sovereignty of nation states; … Read More »

asia, china rising, russia 2 Comments

Mr Putin goes to Hanoi

21 Jun