43. Geopolitics Upside Down - Ukraine Crisis - Diplomatic Chessboard

This series of podcasts is exploring the unfolding crisis of the war in Ukraine, security in Europe, and the NATO vs Russia War. This episode (recorded on 7 March, Melbourne time) explores the current situation with humanitarian corridors around main Ukrainian cities enabling evacuations, and also looks at the diplomatic positions of major players of China, India and the Gulf States. Is the world really unified against Russia? Geopolitics Upside Down will continue exploring the military, economic, information and diplomatic vectors of the emrging war for the multipolar world.

Links to articles referred to in the show :

• International Crisis Group - Gulf States positions - https://www.crisisgroup.org/europe-central-asia/eastern-europe/ukraine/ukraine-war-global-crisis
• Global Times. Wang Yi phone call with Secretary of State Blinken (5 March 2022) https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202203/1254024.shtml
• Read-out of Quad eaders summit meeting (India) http://mea.gov.in/press-releases.htm?dtl/34927
• MK Bhadrakumar, "Foreign policy at T-junction" Tribune Indiahttps://www.tribuneindia.com/news/comment/foreign-policy-at-t-junction-375687