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2 months ago | 
greeneuropeanjournal.eu | Ronald H. Linden |Hannah Neumann |Roderick Kefferpütz |Raluca Besliu
As Donald Trump returns to power, the world is bracing for four more years of US isolationism and transactional diplomacy. Taiwan, strategically important to China, the US, and the European Union, now finds itself at the centre of escalating geopolitical tensions. Amid Trump’s strategic ambiguity, the EU’s push for stronger domestic chip production, and Beijing’s increasingly confrontational stance, what does the future hold for the autonomous island?
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
post-gazette.com | Ronald H. Linden
The call came at 11:30 to my home in Munich, Germany, on the night of Nov. 9, 1989, 45 years ago yesterday. As Chief Duty officer of Radio Free Europe, I was obliged to stay near the phone (in those days before cell phones) “in case anything happened.”Something did. “You’d better come in, sir,” said my colleague.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
greeneuropeanjournal.eu | Clarence Edwards |Simon Holmes |Ronald H. Linden |Daniel Segoin
Mario Draghi’s recent report on the future of EU competitiveness is a perfect demonstration of Europe’s economic challenges and anxieties. In the face of fierce competition from the US and China and an increasingly hostile trade environment, the EU is fundamentally rethinking its economic policies. How will this change the fight against climate change and Europe’s role in it?
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Ronald H. Linden
Lest the world forget, a war is still raging in Gaza. Among the many obstacles to even a modest cease-fire, there is the Philadelphi corridor. Less than nine miles long and roughly as wide as a football field, it occupies a crucial border location — including the Rafah crossing — between Egypt and Gaza. Egypt patrolled its side of the border after the 1979 peace agreement, then the Palestinian Authority took over control when Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
post-gazette.com | Ronald H. Linden
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Ronald H. Linden
When upgrades are completed, the Mihail Kogalniceanu NATO base will be home to more than 10,000 military members and their families and cover an area the size of Harrisburg. But it isn’t in Pennsylvania — it’s in Constanța, Romania, on the Black Sea, along with the U.S.-run Deveselu naval base, home to an Aegis antiballistic missile system. With war raging across Ukraine and the Middle East, and relations volatile with NATO member Turkey, Romania has become America’s new indispensable ally.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
post-gazette.com | Ronald H. Linden
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May 15, 2024 | 
greeneuropeanjournal.eu | Hannah Neumann |Raluca Besliu |Ronald H. Linden
Five years after the last European elections, the geopolitical landscape has drastically changed. From COVID-19 to economic tensions, war in Europe, and the rise of illiberal forces, the relationship between the EU, the US and China has undergone seismic shifts. This year’s elections on both sides of the Atlantic are likely to alter these dynamics once more. In the last few years, the world has experienced some of the most rapid changes since the end of the Cold War.
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May 6, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Ronald H. Linden
Chinese President Xi Jinping was warmly welcomed when he visited Europe in March 2019. The Chinese leader began that trip in Rome, where he was feted as Italy became the first member of the G-7 to sign on to China’s trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Ronald H. Linden
The world’s second-largest economy is sputtering. China’s official 2023 growth rate of 5.2 percent (of which some are skeptical) is roughly half that of the pre-pandemic decade. Exports and imports are down and foreign investment into China fell by 8 percent. As Chatham House put it, “long term capital … seems to be voting with its feet.” Unemployment among China’s youth is so high that for a time the government stopped publishing the rate.
