The White House sold the Beijing visit as a triumph of personal diplomacy. Analysts see something else: America negotiating from a position of weakness.
Trump framed the Beijing visit as a personal demonstration of diplomatic strength.
Analysts note the agenda and protocol were largely controlled by the Chinese side.
Personality-driven diplomacy produces unverifiable deals that bind no future administration.
A leaked document from an Armenian journalistic investigation names Sebastian Ghiță in a list of operations coordinated from a Kremlin-adjacent office.
An Armenian document names Ghiță in a list of Russian-directed operations.
Stated goals: discredit Maia Sandu, the EU, and Romanian democracy.
RomâniaTV is named in the document as the designated execution channel.
An essay published on Contributors applies sociological tools to the sovereigntist wave, starting from the near-total absence of sociology from Romania's public discourse.
Sociology is almost entirely absent from Romania's public debate.
The essay offers a structural analysis of sovereigntism, not a moralistic one.
The phenomenon is linked to institutional distrust and a sense of lost control.
Since EU accession, successive governments have chosen to fuel consumption over investment — and the weekly bill exceeds one billion lei, the author argues.
The cost of consumption-driven policies exceeds one billion lei per week, the author calculates.
The critique targets all post-accession governments, regardless of political colour.
The analysis lands amid a governmental vacuum and a persistent fiscal deficit.