Columna La Tercera, 21.03.2024 Carolina Valdivia, abogada, exsubsecretaria de RREE e investigadora del CEPEn estas latitudes son escasas las noticias que recibimos desde África y, por lo general, se reducen a crisis y conflictos. Sin embargo, es interesante observar esa parte del globo pues se está desarrollando una nueva etapa de la incesante “lucha por África”,...
Sudán, una mecha encendida e ignorada
Columna El Líbero, 06.01.2024 Fernando Schmidt Ariztía, embajador (r) y exsubsecretario de RREEMientras escribo estas líneas la situación política y militar en el Medio Oriente, Irán, el Mar Rojo y el Cuerno de África se acerca peligrosamente a un estallido a gran escala con repercusiones mundiales, incluso para esta “copia feliz del Edén”. Encabezada por el...
Movimientos en el Medio Oriente
Columna El Dínamo, 19.03.2023 Juan Pablo Glasinovic Vernon, abogado y exdiplomáticoEl anuncio iraní-saudita, aunque sorpresivo por su oportunidad, responde a años de acercamiento y activa diplomacia. Desde el 2021 las partes tuvieron varias rondas de negociación en Omán e Irak. El Medio Oriente nunca ha sido una región aburrida para los analistas internacionales. Por su ubicación geográfica...
Biden makes eye contact with Saudi Crown Prince
Blog Indian Punchline, 01.10.2021 M.K. Bhadrakumar, ex diplomático y columnista indioWhat is absolutely certain about the visit by the US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan to Saudi Arabia and his meeting with the powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Monday, is that it couldn’t have been for extending an invitation to the Summit for Democracy...
Biden prepares the ground for QUAD-3
Columna Indian Punchline, 27.07.2021 M.K. Bhadrakumar, ex diplomático y columnista indioThe US President Joe Biden’s foreign-policy team seems increasingly unsure of the ground beneath their feet. They can see that the edifice that their 78-year old chief is erecting stands on shaky ground. But they lack the presence of mind to object. Biden has the supreme advantage that...
Gulf security paradigm in historic shift
Blog Indian Punchline, 20.04.2021 M.K. Bhadrakumar, ex diplomático y columnista indioThe geopolitical alignments of the Gulf region are rapidly transforming both in bilateral and multilateral formats. Starting with the rapprochement between Qatar and Saudi Arabia in January, the common thread here is that the shift in the regional strategy under US President Joe Biden has been...
Peace at Last for Yemen?
Artículo Project-Syndicate, 30.07.2020 Thomas R. Pickering (embajador y ex subsec para asuntos políticos), Malcolm Rifkind, Norbert Röttgen, Yang Guang y Andrey KortunovEnding Yemen's bloody civil war is critical first and foremost for the country's long-suffering people. But a peace deal would also serve as a confidence-building step toward stability in the Middle East, and would send...
Saudi Arabia: What happens when the oil stops
Carta OpinionGlobal, Riad Fouad Saade, empresario libanés y consul honorario de Chile (Beirut)The Middle East has been in turmoil since ever Second World War end. This increased starting turn of the century with the need for the USA to focus on China. The US plan expressed by G-W Bush was built around the concept of a “Greater...
Oil price war is more about market share
Columna Indian Punchline, 17.03.2020 M.K. Bhadrakumar, ex diplomático y columnista indioThe common refrain is that Saudi Arabia has launched an oil price war against Russia by boosting production and selling at discounted price, which, coming on top of the pressure from demand destruction caused by climate change action and the onslaught on the global financial system from...
The Great Oil War of 2020 Has Begun. Can Russia Win?
Carta OpinionGlobal, 15.03.2020 Riad Fouad Saade, empresario libanés y consul honoriario de Chile en BeirutFor years in my charlas at the Diplomatic Academy of Chile, I have explained the link between the US dollar, as being the world currency reference, and world oil policy lead by the USA. I reminded that whoever of the Arab puppet leaders who...