Featured in the Yandex aggregator, with the agency RIA Novosti, Izvestia and others, the statement in Russia by a diplomat from the country to the UN, speaking to a European digital channel about Moscow’s “change of position” regarding Ukraine’s accession to the Union, echoed in Russia. European.
Now the Russian government no longer accepts that this is part of an eventual peace agreement, as it no longer sees a difference between NATO and the EU.
It was in the midst of different Russian threats, including nuclear ones, against the Nordic countries joining the US-led military organization. The Washington Post headline read, “Russia says Finland’s NATO bid is a threat and promises retaliation.”
On the other hand, influential Chinese academic Yan Xuetong, director of the Institute of International Relations at Tsinghua University, where Xi Jinping himself graduated, told a news channel that China only loses with the war, which “has accelerated the reversal of globalization”.
The interview with Ifeng or Phoenix, channel of a tycoon close to the government, made the headlines of the South China Morning Post, “China has gained nothing from the conflict in Ukraine, which will only lead to further violations of international rules, says leading scholar “.
According to Yan, both Russia and the United States disrespected the UN Charter, with the invasion and sanctions. And China, “the world’s largest trading country”, will be undermined by a disrespect that is expected to grow over the next ten years.
“The war has exacerbated the situation, there will be more and more non-compliance with international rules.”
TREMENDOUS BEFORE WINTER
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, with a photo of an empty gas station in northern Germany (above), reports that the country could be “shivering before the next winter”.
The day before, the newspaper had already headlined that “Ukraine has strangled the flow of gas”, charging Kiev if “there really was no other option” than to cause “damage to important allies”. And on Thursday (12) came Russian sanctions against 31 German gas companies.
CRUSHING EXPECTATIONS
In the Wall Street Journal’s print headline, “Inflation Pressure Continues.” In the Financial Times’ digital headline and most read text throughout Wednesday and Thursday, “US Inflation Remains at 40-Year Highest Level, Defeating Expectations for a Bigger Drop.”
In an interview with the financial channel CNBC, economist “Mohamed El-Erian says that the US is approaching ‘cost of living crisis’ after more inflation data”. Inflation, he argues, has been “very hot for a long time” in the world’s biggest economy.
