The experts have officially declared there is a famine in Gaza. But what exactly counts as a famine? And who judges if the standard has been met? As world leaders stream into New York City this month to...
China needs to be emplaced in CNMI if it is going to take Taiwan. Usually the focus is on Guam, but widen the geographic aperture and it’s clear that whatever applies to Guam applies equally to CNMI. And Beijing knows it.
The United States unwisely cancelled a key meeting on Sudan’s civil war. The State Department called off a gathering with the Sudan Quad — Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates — scheduled...
President Rashad al Alimi, the chairman of Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council (PLC), met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on May 28 to discuss the relationship between their two countries....
After a decade of accelerated industrialization, China is preparing to go for another round. On May 26, Bloomberg reported that Chinese paramount leader Xi Jinping is currently considering relaunching...
Arming Taiwan, Ukraine, and Israel While Strengthening the U.S. Industrial Base
International Energy Policies Threaten U.S. National Security
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Proactively Taking Down and Preventing the Creation of Inauthentic Social Media Entities
Two U.S. Marines in Turkey were assaulted on Monday by more than a dozen members of the Turkish Youth Union (TYU), a secular nationalist youth group opposed to U.S. and European Union influence in the...
A spokesman for Turkey’s ruling Islamist AKP Party said on September 3 that there had been no “concrete development” in its application to join the BRICS alliance of emerging...
No one is obligated to help China fund its war machine. The decision to buy Chinese sovereign bonds should reside with informed investors, Elaine Dezenski and Joshua Birenbaum write.
A ship in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) crossed into the southern hemisphere, Iranian state media reported on May 4. The Shahid Mahdavi, a converted container...
Turkey suspended trade with Israel on May 2, according to two unnamed Turkish officials quoted by Bloomberg. In response, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz wrote on X that Ankara...
The UN’s response to October 7 makes reform more urgent than ever. UN reform used to be a bipartisan priority — it must now be again.
Ending Global Dependence on Putin's Nuclear Energy Sector