Military

  Jakarta/Indonesia (8/5- 3.33).    On April 29, the Coordinating Minister for Politics, Legal, and Security Affairs formally labelled Papua’s armed criminal organization (KKB), also known as the West Papua...

    Moscow (8/5-40).    China and Russia have conducted a series of military exercises in the brutal cold of the Siberian mountains, just as both countries' tensions...

  Brussels (27/4 - 20).      The renowned independent Levada polling institute presented 21 April a survey on the major fears of Russians(opens in a new tab)....

    Washington (26/4 – 36.36).   Last week, Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), told the Senate Intelligence Committee that DIA has no idea why Russian...

    NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned Thursday (4 March) that Europe’s defence depends on close transatlantic bonds and not on a quest for the continent’s strategic...

    Vienna (9/3 - 60).      In November 2020, the former ambassador Wolfgang Petritsch provided an op-ed about the confused Austrian foreign policy following the firing...

  Bavaria is set to be placed under the strictest coronavirus measures in Germany from Wednesday, including local curfews in hotspots and partial school closures. The southern region, with...

  Washington (23/12).   Without the transatlantic relationship, former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger once said, Europe would be at the mercy of China, a mere “appendage” of Eurasia....

  New York (22/12).   Germany’s United Nations envoy, during his last scheduled UN Security Council meeting, appealed to China to free two detained Canadians for Christmas, prompting China’s deputy UN envoy to...

  The novel coronavirus pandemic has resulted in a mass-market selloff in almost every industry from travel to hospitality.  However, defense stocks have remained a bright spot in...