US slaps sanctions on a Chinese company for allegedly supplying satellite images to the Wagner Group. Plus: Russia’s shifting focus after Western powers promise tanks for Ukraine, and Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg visits South Korea and Japan.
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News: EU Sanctions Iran, Russia-China-South Africa Naval Drills, Oslo Design
January 24, 2023 – We report on the EU’s new sanctions against Iran. Plus: a look at South Africa’s worsening energy crisis and controversial plans to hold joint naval drills with Russia and China, the latest fashion news, and this year’s Oslo Design Fair.
Books: London Review Of Books – February 2, 2023
‘Island nations tend to be complacent about border problems, seeing them as things that happen to someone else. But then you have Brexit and Northern Ireland, and it suddenly becomes clear that no one is safe.
Russia is fighting Ukraine about borders. This means that, as well as dodging bombs and getting used to living in the dark, residents of the border zone have to decide if they are “really” Russian or “really” Ukrainian.
Some will no doubt be keeping the non-chosen identity in a trunk in the attic, to be retrieved in case of future need. But the logic of war is stern: those who choose to be Ukrainians are also opting to hate Russians as the enemy invader, while those in Ukraine who choose to be Russians are contemplating the possibility of having to move east.
Wherever the border ultimately settles, there will be fortifications and troops stationed on either side and a series of tightly controlled crossing points. Villages and families will be divided and the normal commerce of economic and social life disrupted. Schools will teach in the language of the victor. Roads that used to lead somewhere will end abruptly.’
The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey along Europe’s Cold War Border by Timothy Phillips
On the Edge: Life along the Russia-China Border by Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey
360° Aerial Tour: Moneron Island, Eastern Russia (8K)
Preview: Foreign Policy Magazine – Winter 2023
The New Rules of War
Twelve experts on what the world needs to learn from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Biden Is Now All-In on Taking Out China
The U.S. president has committed to rapid decoupling, whatever the consequences.
Why Japan Should Join AUKUS
Tokyo has become an indispensable security actor in the Indo-Pacific.
News: The Latest Stories & Headlines From London
Ukraine-Russia diplomatic peace negotiation talk rises, Los Angeles first woman mayor Karen Bass, and other news stories from London.
Stories Of 2023: Support For Ukraine, The Cost Of Living, Global Economy
Monocle’s head of radio, Tom Edwards, looks ahead to 2023 with Rachel Cunliffe and Barbara Serra including a global response to Russia, a cost of living crisis, what’s next for the global economy at Davos and how the UK will cope with Eurovision.
Foreign Affairs Magazine: The Best Articles Of 2022
The Sources of Russian Misconduct
A Diplomat Defects From the Kremlin
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2022
Revenge of the Patriarchs
Why Autocrats Fear Women
MARCH/APRIL 2022
Nobody Wants the Current World Order
How All the Major Powers—Even the United States—Became Revisionists
AUGUST 3, 2022
Previews: Foreign Affairs Magazine – Jan/Feb 2023
Putin’s Last Stand
The Promise and Peril of Russian Defeat
The Global Zeitenwende
How to Avoid a New Cold War in a Multipolar Era
A Free World, If You Can Keep It
Ukraine and American Interests
360° Views: Kalyazin Bell Tower, Volga River, Russia
There are about eight dozen cities and towns along the banks of the great Russian river Volga. One of them is Kalyazin, which may not be among the largest places, but it has a very peculiar history.
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