Questions tagged [geopolitics]
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What would Russia have to gain from building a reliable security architecture in the Asia-Pacific region?
HANOI, June 20 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said he
wanted to build a "reliable security architecture" in the Asia-Pacific
region during a state visit to Vietnam on Thursday, ...
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What would a tactical nuke strike actually look like? [closed]
When the conversations about a possible tactical nuke strike by Russia on Ukraine go, I usually see the headline threats by Putin or some other top officials. The rest is basically "this would ...
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Why does Egypt want Israel to withdraw from the Gazan side of the Rafah crossing?
Delegations from the United States and Israel end a meeting in Cairo
aimed at discussing the reopening of the Rafah Crossing between Gaza
and Egypt, according to Egypt’s al Qahera News TV.
The network,...
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Does Chad have any geostrategic value for the United States?
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — The U.S. military plans to return to Chad within a
month for talks about revising an agreement that allows it to keep
troops based there, an American general said Wednesday.
The U....
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Is there an official source for the list of province-level divisions along with their capital acording to the People's Republic of China's government? [closed]
I have found this this article on Chinese Wikipedia that shows a table with the columns 省会 (provincial capital) and 省份 (province) (see screenshot below).
The table above contains the information that ...
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Why doesn't Israel withdraw from the territories occupied during the Six-Day War of 1967?
United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 asks for "withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict" (meaning the 1967 war).
Many international ...
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As of 2024, how can Russia escalate the war in Ukraine?
According to this answer for the question Why do Western countries not send more powerful weapons to Ukraine?, Western countries are reluctant also out of fear of conflict escalation:
It is not in ...
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Has Cloudflare started filtering Russian traffic due to sanctions? [closed]
Today is 29 of march 2024.
Some sites using Cloudflare as a security or DNS service became blocked.
Can there be political reasons for this blocking?
How do I find out the legal grounds for this or ...
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What makes Arunachal Pradesh a geopolitical region and geostrategically important for China?
India has dismissed China’s objections to a recent visit by Prime
Minister Narendra Modi to the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh,
which Beijing claims is its territory.
The spat is the latest ...
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Why are so few countries willing to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states?
However, the role nationalism might have played in the Russia–Georgia
War of August 2008 has been largely ignored. One of the most
influential authors on the conflict, Ronald Asmus, did argue that ‘‘...
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How geostrategically important is the Maldives to China?
India has said its military personnel were stationed in the Maldives
to maintain and operate two rescue and reconnaissance helicopters and
a small aircraft it had donated years ago. Removing Indian ...
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What makes the Golan Heights a geopolitical region and strategically important for Israel?
As a geopolitical region, it refers to the border region captured from
Syria by Israel during the Six-Day War of 1967; the territory has been
occupied by the latter since then and was subject to a de ...
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Why does the Roman Curia need such an extensive diplomatic network?
The Roman Curia now enjoys formal diplomatic relations with 184 sovereign states and even a seat as permanent observer at the United Nations.
Why exactly does the Roman Curia need this extensive ...
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Why does resentment toward former colonizers such as France still linger in Africa?
Others point to what they see as hypocrisy in Western condemnations of
Russia; Western countries also deploy PMCs across the continent, which
has led the AU to call for the “complete exclusion of ...
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Is there any agreement that allows China to use Russian naval bases for its military cooperation?
Over the past decade, China and Russia have transformed Europe’s
maritime security seascape through their military basing access and
port investments across maritime Europe — from the Baltic and Black
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