Generational Dynamics - Page 5

Contents: Britain and France renew 1904 Entente Cordiale with new military agreement; Britain will pay £44.5 million to renew the Le Touquet migration agreement

Contents: France’s Emmanuel Macron vows no more Jungle refugee camps in Calais; Macron demands more money from Britain and to renegotiate the Le Touquet Agreement

Contents: US in Syria announces a Border Security Force to prevent repeat of Iraq withdrawal blunder; Turkey, Russia and Syria infuriated by the Border Security Force announcement

Contents: Cameroon crisis escalates as English-speakers flee to Nigeria to escape French-speakers’ violence; Cameroon Catholic Church splits over government ‘barbarism’ and ‘growing genocide’

Contents: US-Pakistan relations continue as before, despite US aid cutoff; US requests Pakistan’s permission to ship Afghan supplies through Gwadar seaport

Contents: Tunisia anti-austerity activists call for huge protests on Friday; Tunisia protests evoke memories of the 2011 ‘Arab Spring’

Contents: Tit-for-tat violence between Nigeria’s Muslim herders and Christian farmers becomes more serious; Nigeria searches for solutions to problem of herders vs farmers

Contents: Number of asylum seekers, led by Albanians, hits record high in France; France threatens to restore Schengen visa regime with Albania; The ‘Jungle’ is closed in Calais France, but the migrants aren’t gone

Contents: Rohingya ARSA attack on Burma (Myanmar) police complicates fantasy repatriation plans; Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh continues to grow

Contents: Syria’s Bashar al-Assad targets civilians and hospitals in never-ending war of extermination; Russia’s ‘de-escalation zones’ turn into total farce

Contents: Iranian advisors are ‘on the ground’ with Houthis in Yemen, supplying weapons and intelligence; Forces realign in the Yemen war following the death of Ali Abdullah Saleh

Contents: North Korea reveals major change in strategic direction; North Korea’s ‘clarification’ of the New Year speech; The stark choice facing the Trump administration

Contents: In scathing criticism of Pakistan, Trump administration cuts $255 million in aid; US-Pakistan relations at a crossroad; Ohhhhhhhh noooooo! Chocolate may be extinct by 2050!

Contents: Iran protesters kill a police officer in escalating violence; Trump and Netanyahu express solidarity with Iranian protesters

Contents: Xi Jinping says that China will now have a ‘say’ on all international issues; Xi Jinping promises to eliminate poverty by 2020; North Korea says that its nuclear arsenal protects it from attacks; Generational Dynamics World View finishes another year with a perfect record

Contents: With ISIS collapsing, US forces will remain in Syria to restore ‘normalcy’; US warns Assad regime to stay west of Euphrates river

Contents: Anti-government, anti-war and economic protests spread across Iran; Iran’s regime begins responding to the protests

Contents: Uzbekistan’s Shavkat Mirziyoyev promises to end atrocities of previous leader Islam Karimov; Rise of Islamic radicalism and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU); Who’s going to pick the cotton in Uzbekistan?

Contents: India kills 3 Pakistani soldiers in Kashmir in revenge attack; Christians celebrate Christmas in Pakistan under tight security

Contents: Combined Syrian and Iranian forces taking control of enclave on Israel’s border; Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah heading for a military confrontation in Syria

Contents: China funds unauthorized anti-Japan comfort woman statue in Manila, Philippines; South Korea calls for renegotiating 2015 deal with Japan on comfort women

Contents: Remembering the 1914 World War I Christmas Truce; The ‘anti-war movement’ in World War I; World War I vs World War II and World War III

Contents: US sending anti-tank missiles to Ukraine as East Ukraine violence surges; Violence surges in East Ukraine as Russia withdraws its monitors; Russia objects to weapons sale with laughable statement

Contents: New Tanzania law makes it ‘sedition’ to reference a statistic the government doesn’t like; New China law ‘protects the honor’ of Chinese heroes; How to confront a Chinese troll

Contents: General Assembly Jerusalem vote: Low ‘yes’ count humiliates Palestinians; Palestinians in Jerusalem fail to get excited by UN vote

Contents: Burma (Myanmar) blocks UN investigator from investigating atrocities against Rohingyas; Burma officials, including Aung San Suu Kyi, may face genocide charges

Contents: Thousands of Kurds in violent protests against Kurdistan government in northern Iraq; Iraq’s Baghdad government splits over role of Iran-backed Shia militias

Contents: China resumes military buildup in Bhutan’s Doklam Plateau; Foreign ministers of China and India meet, and discuss Doklam; China’s media predict nuclear war in North Korea by March

Contents: Communists score major election wins in Nepal, possibly moving country towards China; Nepal reacts to India’s bungled meddling over the new constitution

Contents: Chinese experts warn China to prepare for nuclear war in North Korea; Concerns grow over the threat of a North Korean nuclear reactor disaster

Contents: China-Australia relations plummet over China’s illegal militarization of South China Sea; China reacts contemptuously to Australia’s foreign policy white paper; China continues aggressive military buildup in the South China Sea; Trump to target China’s unfair trade policies in National Security Strategy

Contents: European Union continues to face crises regarding migration; Bitter divisions emerge at EU summit over migration issues

Contents: Organization of Islamic Cooperation throws a temper tantrum over Jerusalem; Palestinians disappointed by final communiqué of OIC Summit

Contents: China’s warplanes conduct ‘encirclement’ patrols around Taiwan’s and Japan’s islands; Encirclement patrols follow explicit Chinese war threats against Taiwan; China unification continues to lose support among the people of Taiwan

Contents: China alarmed by consequences of its CPEC investment in Pakistan — terrorism and corruption; China halts CPEC funds over concerns about corruption in Pakistan; Pakistan alarmed about a Chinese ‘debt trap’

Contents: Sri Lanka formally hands its southern seaport Hambantota over to China; India’s alarm grows over spread of China’s ‘Maritime Silk Road’