John Metzler

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John J. Metzler is a longtime U.N. correspondent who has reported from fifty-five countries and regularly visits Europe and the Far East to observe national elections, conflicts, and economic development.

He is the author of Divided Dynamism; The Diplomacy of Separated Nations Germany, Korea and China (University Press of America, 1996). Mr. Metzler writes weekly for Free Press International.

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Spy chiefs deliver joint wake-up call on Chinese intel

The jolting but not unexpected wake-up call came from London.

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'Finlandization' to expanded NATO: 'Not without risk'

Just a year ago, the political odds of comfortably neutral Sweden and Finland joining NATO were a long shot; Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine changed the military threat and jolted the political calculus.

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Hong Kong lost its freedom and China is still communist

How time flies. It’s been 25 years since Hong Kong returned to Chinese control, a quarter century since the prosperous British Crown Colony became a semi-autonomous part of the People’s Republic of China, the world’s largest dictatorship.

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Commnist China stakes claim to Taiwan Strait

Is China drawing yet another provocative red line, this time in the narrow but strategic Taiwan Strait?

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Global investments rebound, 'unlikely to be sustained'

Foreign investment flows worldwide have rebounded to pre-pandemic levels reaching nearly $1.6 trillion. That’s the good news. Yet as a new report warns, the war in Ukraine and widening global uncertainty make the prospects for expansion appear grim.

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Jubilee for Queen Elizabeth, 96, revives gloomy Britain

It was time to celebrate! The 70th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s accession to the throne in 1952 makes her the longest serving Monarch in British history. Thus, the grandly named Platinum Jubilee has not only dazzled the country with its Royal Pomp and circumstance, but as importantly invigorated it with its joyous celebrations of unity across the land.

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Syria’s tragedy remains greatest humanitarian crisis

Our world is beset by unthinkable tragedy; brash military aggression, widening instability and grinding humanitarian suffering.

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Next Putin move: From chess to 'nuclear catastrophe'?

Has Putin’s war against Ukraine, started during the Winter, proved a stroke of genius by the denizen of the Kremlin?

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North Korea exploits a lapse in U.S. leadership

Thousands of miles beyond the widening tragedy in Ukraine, a new threat has reemerged on the Korean peninsula with a provocative long-range missile test by communist North Korea.

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Russia again rebuked by UN, NATO; Ukraine faces 'Syria scenario'

The second salvo of diplomatic condemnation slammed into Russia as the UN General Assembly once again soundly and overwhelmingly condemned Moscow’s actions in Ukraine.

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Ukraine’s humanitarian exodus is largest since WWII

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has triggered a rising tsunami of refugees fleeing their beleaguered homeland and heading for neighboring Poland, Slovakia and Hungary.

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‘Belt and Road’ advances: Beijing fills void in Argentina created by American ambivalence

For nearly a decade now, China’s “Belt and Road” commercial infrastructure initiative (BRI) has been expanding globally.

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Should we expect a Sochi replay, this time by China?

The ongoing Beijing Winter Olympics have averted our attention from a possible geopolitical clash of titans.

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Biden's UN bail out of state sponsor of terror Iran

In a truly bizarre twist of international diplomacy which would have baffled even the denizens of Monty Python, the Islamic Republic of Iran whose UN membership dues were in arrears and thus barring the country’s General Assembly voting rights, was figuratively bailed out by an unlikely source, a hidden hand.

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A mid-winter game of geopolitical chess

Russian tanks and mechanized infantry are churning dangerously close to Ukraine’s borders.

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