The Azerbaijanis, Not the Azeris, Are Hosting COP29
The Republic of Azerbaijan will host the annual UN Climate Change Conference known as COP29 in November 2024. For many who will attend COP29 and follow the process, this will be their first...
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Xi, Putin Visit Light on Support for Russia’s Invasion
Putin Hosts Xi for State Visit Days after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest, Vladimir Putin hosted Chinese leader Xi Jinping for a state visit. The event marked a diplomatic...
Op-eds
How Iran’s Regime Is Threatened by Its Clerics
A new wrinkle in the Islamic Republic’s continuing political crisis
Op-eds
How Silicon Valley Engineered China’s Protest Crackdowns
American software and equipment—from companies like Microsoft and Oracle—is deeply embedded throughout China’s police state.
Op-eds
WAR IN UKRAINE: The U.S. Hardware Kyiv Needs Most
Fresh off a surprise visit to Kyiv, President Biden vowed Tuesday that America “will not tire” in its support for Ukraine. To deliver on that commitment, Biden must hold together the bipartisan coalition...
Op-eds
China’s Crisis of Confidence
What if, instead of being a competitor, China can no longer afford to compete at all?
Op-eds
‘Caught Between a Hammer and an Anvil’
Israel’s in a difficult position when it comes to the war in Ukraine
Op-eds
Book Review: The Never Ending War
One ideological goal that has animated foreign policy decision-making over the past three U.S. administrations has been a desire to retreat from “forever wars.” For Israel, such a fantasy-driven ambition...
Op-eds
Why the IOC Doesn’t Deserve Gold for Its Olympics Campaign
While more than 1 million Uyghurs and other minorities suffer mass detention, forced labor and torture in Xinjiang in western China, many of the world’s greatest athletes competed in Beijing at the...
Op-eds
Global Supply Chains Are Driving Conflict. They Can Be Rewired for Peace.
The immediate path to stopping Vladimir Putin’s brazen and brutal war in Ukraine may not be entirely clear, just yet. But one thing is certain: global supply chain dependencies on Russian oil and natural...
Op-eds
Russia sanctions grow faster, larger than South Africa sanctions in 1980s
When I lived in Moscow, I worked for Bloomberg, banked at Citibank, used my Visa card at Ikea, lunched at McDonald’s and flew home on Aeroflot to New York. As of this week, all that is over. As more than...
Op-eds
Cartels and crypto
Excerpt If the massive spike in traffic across the U.S.-Mexico border continues at its current pace, total border arrests in 2021 will be the highest since 2000, when nearly 1.7 million illegal border...
Op-eds
The Bizarre Positive Biden Spin on Afghanistan
No, the Taliban are not America’s partners
Op-eds
‘YouTube censorship works a lot like CCP’s’
‘YouTube censorship actually works a lot like Chinese Communist Party censorship: the rules are vague and the enforcement is arbitrary. They want to encourage you to self-censor because you don’t know where the red line is.’
Op-eds
The Divided Self of John le Carré
The death of perhaps history’s greatest espionage writer John le Carré in December 2020 sparked a series of lively debates about the British novelist’s contradictory views toward Zionism, Jews and...
Op-eds
The United States Has a Data Broker Problem
Apple last month released its new App Tracking Transparency feature, which seeks to help users prevent apps from tracking, capturing, or selling their digital activity to third-party data brokers. Stopping...
Policy Briefs
Social Media Is an Intel Gold Mine. Why Aren’t Governments Using It?
“To platform or to deplatform” is the wrong debate.
Op-eds
Hezbollah: Narco-Terror and Crime in Latin America
Will the Biden administration go after Hezbollah’s drug trafficking and money laundering networks? Hezbollah’s direct involvement in the drug trade is well documented, ongoing, and a threat to U.S national...
Op-eds
Occupied Territories Bill in Ireland Is Dead on Arrival
Amid a COVID-19-induced economic recession, Irish independent Senator Frances Black has revived a draft law targeting Israel after a previous failed attempt. The Occupied Territories Bill, if enacted, could...
Policy Briefs
How Big Tech factors into the US-China geopolitical competition
Excerpt On Oct. 6, the House Judiciary Committee issued a report calling for new antitrust regulations to rein in Big Tech. This report comes after a 15-month antitrust probe into technology firms Google,...