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Will Xi play ball with Trump on Ukraine?

US president-elect Donald Trump has invited China’s president Xi Jinping to his inauguration on January 20 in a surprise move which appears to be part of a plan to involve Beijing in ceasefire negotiations in Ukraine.

Ending a war

Donald Trump’s election victory and his vow to swiftly end the Ukraine-Russia war present both an ambitious promise and a diplomatic quandary.

Reconstruction

A recent report from an American think tank, the German Marshall Fund (GMF), which seeks to strengthen the trans-Atlantic relationship

World Government~I

Despite the Russia-Ukraine War that has been raging for 16 months now, one can say that compared to the previous centuries, the present century has so far been relatively peaceful, though fundamentalist forces threaten to tear this peace asunder. One reason for this is the advent of democracy in different parts of the world, and as Amartya Sen had said, democracies rarely, if at all, fight each other. Emergence of nation states in the nineteenth century may have played a part in this when they started replacing empires, kingdoms and city-states