Themistoklis Zanidis, a retired officer of the Hellenic Navy, author at hellenicdailynewsny.com, a news blog for the Hellenic Diaspora in US, Canada, and the World, now a research intern at the Institute of International Relations in Greece, studied Cultural Studies (of Hellenic Civilization) and soon to start Masters on Global Policies and UN at Rutgers University in the US, is our episode's guest.


We talk about:


the importance of culture and history in diplomacy,


the selling and Achilles heel points of the Chinese strategic culture,


the pitfalls for the African and the Middle-East countries relations with China,


the introvert EU,


the new block of China, Russia, and Turkey


and


the transition of the UN in its global role.

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