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The UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ Message to the Opening of the 70th Regular Session of the General Conference of the IAEA

(delivered by Monica Juma, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Vienna) I send warm greetings to participants at the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency. As the custodian of the safeguards system, the IAEA reinforces our common security against the proliferation of nuclear weapons. And its role in advancing the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology — from electrification to human health and agriculture — is spurring development around the world.  Recent developments regarding safeguards implementation in the Syrian Arab Republic reflect the indispensable,…

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The US Strategic Withdrawal and China’s Opportunity

According to the “chaos theory” advocated by American neoconservatism in the post-Cold War era, hegemons must introduce a series of “strange attractors,” – based on the characteristics of the target region – to consolidate power and gain more benefits in the new era, such as ethnic or religious conflicts, terrorism, and territorial disputes. These goals are aimed at causing turmoil, thereby weakening, dismembering, and atomizing their opponents. At the same time, Western leaders do recognize the fragility of democracy and religious beliefs. So, how to implement this successfully? Firstly, by using the pretext of “clash of civilizations,” the Anglo-Saxon Protestant…