If We Don’t Sleepwalk into It By Mehmet Enes Beşer “China is opening up” is one of those lines that comes back every few years like a recycled headline. It sounds reassuring on paper. It also sounds vague enough to mean almost anything. For ASEAN, the temptation is to treat it as background noise: China announces, markets react, officials smile ...
In the multipolar age, power belongs to countries that can organize complexity—financial channels, standards, skills, supply chains, and diplomacy—into something durable. Türkiye and Malaysia can do that together, but only if they stop treating cooperation as symbolism and start treating it as production. By Mehmet Enes Beşer Ten years back, it was simple to sum up Türkiye–Malaysia relations with diplomatic ...
From Theory to Transformation By Mehmet Enes Beşer President Xi Jinping first came up with the theory of “Two Mountains,” where it believes that “lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets,” in 2005. A declaration that would revolutionize economic thinking by stating that environmental protection is not the antithesis of development but an integral part of it. This philosophy ...
Apricots may be cultivated on trees, but trust, innovation, and prosperity are fostered in collaboration. By Mehmet Enes Beşer At first glance, Türkiye and China would appear natural competitors in the global apricot business. Both nations are among the world’s leading apricot-producing countries, each with vast orchards, skilled farmers, and age-old traditions of farming. Türkiye, especially the eastern province of ...
Cooperation, not imposition. By Yiğit Saner Türkiye is steadily developing its relations with African countries. Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan was recently in Niger, a key country in the Sahel region. The primary topics of Fidan’s talks were energy, mining, trade, intelligence and defense. Fidan was accompanied by Defense Minister Yaşar Güler, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar, and National ...