External publications
Belgium has long maintained relatively warm relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Several of China’s first-generation communist leaders studied in Belgium during the interwar period, and although Belgium—like […]
Commentaries
Inertia is not only a physical phenomenon. It also applies to our own ideas, convictions, and worldviews. We are equally reluctant to change direction like any object in nature, unless […]
Commentaries
European debates about Russia’s threat perception are often framed as a binary choice. On one side, alarmist voices warn of an imminent military danger requiring rapid mobilisation. On the other, […]
Commentaries
The beginning of 2026 confronted Europe with a series of shocks that left little time to recover from the holiday lull. President Trump’s renewed rhetoric about acquiring Greenland, coming on […]
Commentaries
President Roosevelt was sincere in his altruism. Of course, the US is at the centre of the international order of which, in 1944-45, he laid the foundation, not least in […]
Amid ongoing rivalry between various factions of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), severely depleted ranks caused by the ongoing anti-corruption crackdown, purges within the top ranks of the Chinese military, […]