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The great Chinese realignment

by Guy Mettan,* Geneva

(16 November 2023) Responding to a Chinese invitation, I participated for around eight days in various meetings organised on the “Third New Silk Roads Summit” which was held in Beijing on October 17 and 18. By its scale, this forum was the largest international event since the Winter Olympic Games were held in February 2022. More than 130 countries, dozens of heads of state, prime ministers, and ministers from all backgrounds and all obediences were to be seen there, with the notable exclusion of Westerners and the G7, only represented by neighbouring Japan and a few leaders from the Balkans.
Middle East

ICRC: “We are on the brink of collapse”

Further escalation in Gaza will claim incredible human toll

Interview with ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric Egger conducted by Gordana Mijuk (NZZ am Sonntag)

(9 November 2023) Interview with ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric Egger conducted by Gordana Mijuk (NZZ am Sonntag)

“The Covid-19 bioweapon and the planned dismantling of our direct democracy”

by Professor Paul R. Vogt

(9 November 2023) (Edit.) Today, it takes a lot of perseverance, courage, and straightforwardness to bring topics that have been avoided for various reasons to the public attention. Professor Paul R. Vogt, founder of the EurAsiaHeart-Foundation1 and former head of cardiac surgery at Zurich University Hospital, has written another thesis paper as a matter close to his heart.

Switzerland’s neutrality – a prerequisite for supply security

by Hans Bieri

(8 November 2023) (Ed.) Hans Bieri, Managing Director of the “Swiss Association Industry + Agriculture SVIL”, expertly describes the importance of neutrality for our country’s security of supply. As an export nation without its own raw materials, Switzerland’s very existence depends on open markets. Its neutral position offers advantages to its trading partners. If the country gives up its neutrality, it risks becoming a pawn in the hands of hegemonic powers and losing its independence.
Middle East

October 2023 – News from the war

by Karin Leukefeld,* Syria/Germany

(1 November 2023) Little is known these days about what is happening to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the occupied Palestinian territories in the West Bank. The news is dominated by Israeli or US sources; voices from Gaza or the West Bank hardly appear.
Switzerland

The malaise of school reforms

Interventions at the heart of school

by Christine Staehelin,* Basel

(1 November 2023) In her article Christine Staehelin, a primary school teacher with a degree in education, deals with the insufficient justifiability of many reforms and analyses the serious consequences with trenchant precision.