Entries by Global Bridges

Brazil after the Elections

On Sunday, Brazilian political titans and bitter rivals Jair Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva face off in a second and final round of elections for president. General elections in the beginning of the month already filled important posts in the country’s National Congress and all federal legislative assemblies. Analysts, even those based in […]

20th National People’s Congress in China: Quo Vadis?

The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held this year from October 16 to 22. Every five years, the Central Committee and the Central Disciplinary Commission are elected, under the chairmanship of the President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping. In addition, the period since the last National Congress […]

The Outcome of War in Ukraine Decides the Future of the World Order

Mussolini invaded Ethiopia in 1935. Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938, Poland a year later to gain “Lebensraum in the East“. Two years later he invaded the Soviet Union with the aim of annexing Ukraine for a German “Ingermanland” and “Gotenland.” This tradition of violent land grabbing has been revived with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It […]