Balance of Power in the 3rd week of August 2022 from Bloomberg

August 15 Chinese President Xi Jinping’s hopes for stability ahead of a historic Communist Party congress are quickly dwindling. His country’s economic slowdown deepened in July as strict Covid Zero measures and a slumping real-estate market threaten the chances of a recovery to a “reasonable” range. Key reading: China Announces Patrols to Protest US Senator’s

If Russia chooses to fail to de-escalate

The NATO may react wrongly to the military aggression from Russia against Ukraine’s sovereignty, its independence, its territorial integrity. Talks are the way to solve the problem.