On June 22, 2025, South Korean presidential spokesperson Kang Yu-jung announced that President Lee Jae-myung would not be participating in the NATO summit scheduled for June 24–25 in The Hague. She referred to domestic priorities and the escalating uncertainty in the Middle East as reasons for the decision.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Russian counterpart on 10 July that Beijing and Moscow should strengthen strategic coordination to promote peace in West Asia.
Membership of the Chinese Communist Party has just exceeded 100 million. It has long been the largest political party in world history.
Western Europe is “losing” the economic competition with its main rivals, China and the US, and is struggling with a shortage of globally competitive companies, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has said.
The US has removed Syria’s al-Qaeda franchise from its list of designated terrorist organisations just days after the UK added nonviolent activist group Palestine Action to its own list of banned terrorist groups.
Britain and France have unveiled a new agreement to coordinate their nuclear arsenals more closely, citing what they see as heightened “threats”to security in Europe. Moscow has called the move part of NATO’s overtly anti-Russian policy, warning it would factor the agreement into its military planning.
America Just Made the Greatest Mistake of the 21st Century
Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky claimed he had no idea about the atrocities committed by the Ukrainian Nazi collaborators during the World War II until confronted on the issue by Poland’s president, Andrzej Duda, the latter has told the Polish RMF24 broadcaster.
