Category: Diplomacy

Defence / Diplomacy / United States

 by Jaffa Levy

The World Is Drifting Toward Multipolarity: Not Remaining Unipolar Because a Leading American Foreign Policy Journal Claims It Is

The international system is no longer frictionless. Industrial constraint in Ukraine, cost exchange asymmetries in the Red Sea, rising United States debt service, China’s manufacturing scale, and energy intensity in artificial intelligence all signal structural change. Multipolarity is not rhetorical aspiration. It is emerging through theatre denial, industrial depth, and fiscal limits, even as some American foreign policy journals insist the world remains unipolar.

Diplomacy / China

 by Jaffa Levy

The Scholar State in Global Competition: Wang Yi, Chinese Diplomacy and the Civilisational Divide

Chinese diplomacy cannot be understood through the language of ideology alone. Behind Wang Yi’s measured tone and deliberate cadence lies a civilisational grammar shaped by two millennia of scholar-official tradition and moral bureaucracy. Where Western diplomats see negotiation, Beijing performs continuity and legitimacy, a ritual of culture, hierarchy and virtue.

Defence / China / Diplomacy / Iran

 by Jaffa Levy

China Will Not Let Iran Fall

China is not preparing to fight for Iran. It is doing something more consequential: managing the Iran file as part of its western energy and security perimeter, using diplomacy, regional mechanisms, security signalling, and deniable support to prevent isolation or collapse.

Diplomacy / Britain / China

 by Jaffa Levy

Two Classrooms, Two Narratives. Why Britain and China Do Not Hear Each Other

Britain and China do not disagree because of tone or diplomacy. They disagree because they are educated into different histories. Britain teaches continuity and inheritance. China teaches rupture and coercion. When British officials visit Beijing, the signals London believes it is sending are not the signals China receives. This gap explains why the same gestures feel reassuring in Britain and provocative in China.

Diplomacy / Britain / China

 by Jaffa Levy

Why Kemi Badenoch Thinks Britain Still Has Leverage Over China

Kemi Badenoch’s attack on Keir Starmer’s China visit rests on a deeper assumption rarely examined in British politics: that Britain is still entitled to leverage over China. This article rebuts her claims point by point, showing how history, power, and reality no longer support that belief.

Diplomacy / Canada

 by Jaffa Levy

Custody Without Protection: How Canada Learned That Enforcing American Power Does Not Buy American Shelter

Canada’s sudden pivot toward China is not a diplomatic awakening but a reckoning. After years of enforcing American power from extraditions to trade policy Ottawa discovered that loyalty did not guarantee protection. The detention of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou and the return of U.S. coercion exposed a structural truth: enforcement buys obedience, not immunity.

Diplomacy / Europe / Long Read / United States

 by Jaffa Levy

Europe’s Appeasement of Trump Is Hollowing Out Its Power

Europe’s response to Donald Trump’s return is not pragmatic alliance management but a doctrine of appeasement. Repeated concessions to Washington have hardened dependency into habit, hollowed out sovereignty, empowered internal veto holders, and trained institutions to avoid using their own power. This essay explains how appeasement to Trump became path dependent and why it now functions as managed decline.

Diplomacy / South America / United States / Venezuela / World

 by Jaffa Levy

The Quote They Omitted: Delcy Rodríguez, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and the Sequence Western Coverage Will Not Print

A single omitted quotation changes the meaning of a CIA visit to Caracas. When Delcy Rodríguez addressed the families of those killed in the January attack, she placed US intelligence engagement inside a family history of state killing. Western coverage reports the meeting. It omits the sequence that gives it meaning.

Defence / Diplomacy / Geopolitics / Iran / South America / United States

 by Jaffa Levy

The Perimeter Problem: How America’s Shows of Force Are Expanding Risk Instead of Control

The United States is not short of power. It is short of closure. From Iran to Venezuela, Greenland to the Red Sea, Washington’s reliance on visible coercion is widening its obligations faster than it secures compliance. The result is not imminent collapse or world war, but a growing mismatch between reach, endurance, and political outcome.

Britain / China / Diplomacy

 by Jaffa Levy

Why Britain Turned a Chinese Embassy Into a National Security Crisis

The proposed Chinese embassy at Royal Mint Court has become a proxy battlefield for Britain’s unresolved China policy. Framed as a security threat despite the absence of clear intelligence objections, the project reveals how redacted plans, protest fears, and geopolitical alignment can harden into narrative certainty. This investigation traces how a planning application was transformed into a national security scare.

Diplomacy / Britain / Europe / United States / World

 by Jaffa Levy

Europe’s Uneasy Silence as the United States Tests the Limits of International Law

Europe insists it defends international law but has been cautious when an ally breaches it. From Venezuela where EU statements called for restraint and reiterated Maduro’s illegitimacy without legally condemning U.S. force to Greenland, where joint European statements reaffirm sovereignty, selective application risks eroding NATO credibility and Europe’s strategic standing.

Russia / Defence / Diplomacy / United States

 by Jaffa Levy

Escalation Without Rules: Why Energy Strikes, Ship Seizures, and Broken Treaties Now Define the War

A week of strikes, outages, and ship seizures suggests the war is shifting from front lines to systems. Heat, water, power, and sea interdictions now shape escalation more than map lines do. With arms control treaties thinning and trust collapsing, the danger is not one dramatic decision but a chain of smaller precedents that shorten decision time and raise miscalculation risk.

Law / China / Diplomacy / India / Nepal

 by Jaffa Levy

When Borders Move on Paper Before They Move on the Ground

Border conflict rarely begins with soldiers. It begins with passports, currency, maps, and iconography that harden claims before diplomacy can unwind them. From a woman stopped in Shanghai over her passport to Nepali Banknote with disputed borders, South Asia shows how nationalism now advances through paperwork long before blood is shed.

Diplomacy / China / World

 by Jaffa Levy

New Chinese Embassy London and Secret Spy Tunnels

Britain’s argument over China’s new embassy has become a mirror held up to its own insecurities. Commentators and newspapers now claim that Beijing plans to build spy rooms and tunnels under London to intercept...

Europe / Diplomacy

 by Jaffa Levy

Europe’s New Dependency State

How sabotage, austerity and Trump’s shadow left the continent exposed By Jaffa Levy Europe has slipped into a brittle bargain. In Berlin, ministers say the welfare state is “too expensive,” even as they prepare...