The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony and profits between a U.S.-dominated NATO, its GCC proxies, Russia, China and other regional players. In May of this year, China launched a one-year-long no-holds-barred anti-terror campaign in its far-westernContinue reading “The New Great Game Round-Up #77”
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The New Great Game Round-Up #76
The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony and profits between a U.S.-dominated NATO, its GCC proxies, Russia, China and other regional players. So-called color revolutions have long been used by the United States to replace governments allContinue reading “The New Great Game Round-Up #76”
The New Great Game Round-Up #73
The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony and profits between a U.S.-dominated NATO, its GCC proxies, Russia, China and other regional players. After performing a pilgrimage to Mecca and holding talks with King Abdullah and other high-levelContinue reading “The New Great Game Round-Up #73”
Porkins Great Game: Episode #2 – Crisis in the Caucasus and Mysterious Crashes
On this edition of Porkins Great Game, Pearse Redmond and I discuss briefly the appointment of Jens Stoltenberg as new Secretary General of NATO before we move on to the conflicts brewing in the Caucasus region. We talk about the significance of this month's suicide bombing in the Chechen capital Grozny as well as Russia'sContinue reading “Porkins Great Game: Episode #2 – Crisis in the Caucasus and Mysterious Crashes”
The New Great Game Round-Up #71
The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony and profits between a U.S.-dominated NATO, its GCC proxies, Russia, China and other regional players. Much to the dismay of the United States, Russia “has been steadily strengthening its foothold”Continue reading “The New Great Game Round-Up #71”
The New Great Game Round-Up #70
The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony and profits between a U.S.-dominated NATO, its GCC proxies, Russia, China and other regional players. After nearly four years of negotiations, the European Union und Kazakhstan finally agreed on aContinue reading “The New Great Game Round-Up #70”