Open Dialogue Research Journal
On 17 February 2026, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced a sweeping measure: from 1 May 2026, China would lift import tariffs on goods from the 53 African Union (AU) member states that maintain diplomatic relations with Beijing. The policy-covering goods worth more than $116 billion, roughly Africa’s 2024 exports to […]
Perhaps the most interesting are Russia’s expectation of a “crisis of overproduction” in China and its opposition to Iran’s proposed tolls for passage through the Strait of Hormuz. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s recent interview with RBC was more than just the standard fare since he shared some interesting tidbits about his […]
Update as of 6 September 2026: Yes, the world would like to hope that there is still expectation for peace and that this hope for peace may emanate from this little heard-about in the West – the ten-member Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), an association of countries, some of whom are […]
The US’ newly formalized control over the majority of Venezuela’s oil reserves and Caracas’ potential withdrawal from OPEC could see Trump 2.0 assembling a “North American-South American Petroleum Exporting Countries” group as part of the US’ power play for control over the global oil market. Trump announced over the weekend that the […]
Part I Discussions about singularity often generate sensational headlines, particularly when connected to population growth. Some interpretations suggest that humanity is approaching a dramatic threshold around the late 2020s. The origins of this idea can be traced to mathematical models developed in the twentieth century. Researchers observed that for long […]
Australia’s commitment to the AUKUS security partnership has once again become the subject of intense political debate following confirmation that Canberra will acquire secondhand Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarines from the United States instead of a combination of new and existing vessels. While the government insists that the revised arrangement strengthens national […]
The most dangerous consequence of the expanding confrontation between Russia, Ukraine and Iran may not be a single dramatic military escalation, but the gradual disappearance of the boundaries separating conflicts that were previously treated as distinct. The war in Ukraine and the confrontation surrounding Iran have developed in different regions, […]
By the summer of 2026, the front line in Ukraine has frozen in a configuration barely changed from the autumn of 2023. Positional warfare in Donbass and Zaporozhye has devolved into artillery duels and assaults on small settlements, where advances are measured in hundreds of meters. The Ukrainian army, despite […]
On Sunday evening, just hours before the annual US-South Korea “Ulchi Freedom Shield” exercises were set to begin, Donald Trump issued an order to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to significantly scale back US participation. In his Truth Social post, he wrote: “Given my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un […]
The widening confrontation between Iran and the United States places China in an unusually influential but dangerous position. Beijing is Iran’s most important economic partner, the largest buyer of Iranian oil, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, and a strategic rival of Washington. Yet China is also […]
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