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  • Lauren Easton
    Lauren Easton “The Associated Press decries in the strongest terms the actions of the Israeli government to shut down our longstanding live feed showing a view into Gaza and seize AP equipment. The shutdown was not based on the content of the feed but rather an abusive use by the Israeli government of the country's new foreign broadcaster law. We urge the Israeli authorities to return our equipment and enable us to reinstate our live feed immediately so we can continue to provide this important visual journalism to thousands of media outlets around the world.” 3 hours ago
  • Itamar Ben-Gvir
    Itamar Ben-Gvir “Israel should be the one that controls the Gaza Strip, unequivocally, and no one else. Most important is encouraging voluntary emigration of Palestinians from the enclave. Israel could then facilitate the return of settlements. I would love to live in Gaza if possible.” 3 hours ago
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    Donald Tusk “An attempt to show that the prime minister of Israel and the leaders of terrorist organisations are the same, and the involvement of international institutions in this, is unacceptable.” 3 hours ago
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    Volodymyr Zelenskiy “They [the Russian side] are always blocking everything, they will undermine the process, and they won't rest until they present us with their own plan for ending the war, which will inevitably be an ultimatum, as we have seen on many previous occasions. We can't hand the initiative over to them [...] Our agenda can't be dictated by Russia. This is a war against us, so there is justice in this. The goal of the summit is to come up, between Ukraine and its allies, with a joint stance on three key questions - and then to inform Russia of their position. If all countries support these three points, as I said, then a detailed step-by-step plan will be developed and presented to Russian representatives across different platforms that different countries have [...] Then Russia will have to contend with most of the world.” 3 hours ago
  • John Holman
    John Holman “Few question his ongoing legitimacy and he [Zelenskyy] remains popular. Although lower than before, his approval rating's still above 60 percent. Many Ukrainians also feel an election would be unrealistic and disrupt the war effort. In a poll this March [2024], 78 percent of those asked said they were against elections before the end of the war. But in addition to that there's also the practical difficulties. Some Ukrainian towns are in ruins. Many power plants have been hit so there's rolling blackouts. And perhaps most importantly, there's 8 million people displaced, 5 million outside the country.” 4 hours ago
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China involvement in infrastructure projects

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Jens Bastian
Jens Bastian

“[Hungary and Serbia] are the leading recipients of Chinese foreign direct investment in 2023 in Central and Eastern Europe. China is building and partly financing a Budapest-Belgrade high-speed railway. Chinese electrical vehicle battery manufacturer CATL is investing $7.6bn in the Hungarian city of Debrecen for the construction of a battery plant. It would be Europe's largest electrical battery facility. It would be CATL's single-largest overseas investment and its second facility in Hungary.”

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Fellow with the German Institute for International and Security Affairs
29 Jan 2024 4 8
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Brad Parks
Brad Parks

“Many poor governments could not take on any more loans. So [China] got creative. Loans were given to a constellation of actors other than central governments, but often backed by a government guarantee to pay up if the other party could not. The contracts are murky and governments themselves don't know the exact monetary values they owe to China. What we're seeing right now with the Belt and Road Initiative is buyers' remorse. Many foreign leaders who were initially eager to jump on the Belt and Road Initiative bandwagon are now suspending or canceling Chinese infrastructure projects because of debt sustainability concerns.”

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AidData executive director
29 Sep 2021 3 6
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Zhou Bo
Zhou Bo

“With the U.S. withdrawal, Beijing can offer what Kabul needs most: political impartiality and economic investment. Afghanistan in turn has what China most prizes: opportunities in infrastructure and industry building - areas in which China's capabilities are arguably unmatched - and access to $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits, including critical industrial metals such as lithium, iron, copper and cobalt. Though critics have raised the point that Chinese investment is not a strategic priority in a less secure Afghanistan, I believe otherwise. Chinese companies have a reputation for investing in less stable countries if it means they can reap the rewards. That doesn't always happen so smoothly, but China has patience.”

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Senior fellow at the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University and former senior colonel in the People’s Liberation Army from 2003 to 2020
20 Aug 2021 7 4
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Andrew Hammond
Andrew Hammond

“The charge sheet here is that while Washington has been 'sleeping,' Moscow and Beijing have been deepening their support for illiberal regimes, such as Venezuela, that complicate regional security and hold back the regional transition toward democracy. Moreover, with the region hit hard by the pandemic, there is a fear that China in particular is looking to embed its influence by building more than three dozen ports in the region with significant loans that can be used for political leverage.”

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Associate at LSE IDEAS at the London School of Economics and Political Science
09 Aug 2021 5 6
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Andrej Plenković
Andrej Plenković

“I really think this is a huge event for Croatia, Croatian people, for our friends in Bosnia and Herzegovina, for Croatians in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We connected what we call modern sovereignty, a very clear project with which we are realising strategic interests, realised at the moment when we strengthened our international position and enriched it with the membership in the European Union. The bridge [Peljesac Bridge] does not connect only Croatia, but it connects the EU as well as Bosnia-Herzegovina.”

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Croatian Prime Minister
29 Jul 2021 4 5
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Vuk Vuksanović
Vuk Vuksanović

“This [helping Montenegro] is a rare opportunity for the EU to step up in its backyard and push back against China. But it also wouldn't be the first strategic opportunity that the bloc has squandered in the Balkans. Doing so would be a bad signal to the region and a green light to Beijing.”

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Researcher at Belgrade Centre for Security Policy
14 Apr 2021 4 4
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