Strategy&Future

Together with its One Belt One Road initiative, in 2012, China presented the Community of Common Destiny for Humankind. Initially, the very phrase was used to express China-Taiwan relations, but in 2011, this concept was extended to encompass the whole world and was incorporated into the global strategy of China.

“And when all Israel heard the judgement which the King had pronounced, they feared the King: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgement.” 1 Kings 3:28 But Jesus knew their hypocrisy. ‘Why are you trying to trap me?’ he asked. ‘Bring me a denarius, and let me look at it.’ They brought the coin, and he asked them, ‘Whose image is this? And whose inscription?’ ‘Caesar’s,’ they replied. Then Jesus said to them, ‘Give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.’ And they were amazed at him.” Mark 12:13-17

Toshi Yoshihara (a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, Author of “Mao’s Army Goes to Sea” (2023) and Albert Świdziński discuss Chinese naval strategy.

General (ret.) Robert Spalding and Albert Świdziński discuss “Unrestricted Warfare” and the US strategy vis a vis China.

For a long time, the Turkic World formed a continuous historical and cultural space from China to Europe without the capacity to be a real geopolitical player in Eurasia, but under the leadership of Turkey, the Turkic World is today shaping a new geopolitical reality in Eurasia.

Jacek Bartosiak, Albert Świdziński talk to Louis Vincent Gave on the US-China economic split, financial markets and the future of Europe.

To understand the current course of the war in Ukraine, we must go to the Marxist theory of war, which serves as the foundation for Russian military doctrine. The Marxist school of the war teaches that war is a continuation of politics, a premise taken from Clausewitz.

The war in Ukraine is escalating from one stage of the escalation ladder into another, but much higher than the previous, and no end to the war is feasible on the horizon. Ukraine is a negligible front in the grand game of grand players, but the aftermaths of the Russo-Ukrainian War will have paramount importance to world history.

The main take-away points from the events in Belarus from the summer of 2020 (the unrest of the pro-Western factions of Belarusian civil society) until the current refugee crisis on the Belarusian border with the EU are the following:

Jacek Bartosiak talks to Brandon Weichert on the recent China’s space strike tests and on US Space Force capabilities.

Jacek Bartosiak talks to Jamie Shea on the future of NATO including impact of China on NATO, US pivoting to the Indo-Pacific and the emerging space domain.

Following Mike Pence’s 2018 Hudson Institute speech, the wider narrative around China began to change — just as it started to become clear how much of China’s wealth had been ploughed back into infrastructure and the military. India hosted the world’s biggest ever elections (and its computer programmers came in for some criticism). The US withdrew its troops from Syrian Kurdistan (and set its sights on space). And in Wuhan, China, rumours emerged of a potential new SARS outbreak. This was 2019…