COVID-19

August 20, 2021 | Shany Mor |

Peter Beinart’s Blindness on Israel, Iran and Nuclear Weapons

In a New York Times op-ed predictably hailed as “brave,” Peter Beinart attempts to lay out the case that a prudent American policy on Iran’s nuclear program requires shattering the delicate balancing...

August 15, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal, Ben Evansky

Controversial German politician to head UN agency accused of helping Iran with tech linked to nuclear program

Gerd Müller prepares to outline his plans for UNIDO during the final week of August

August 3, 2021 | Anthony Ruggiero |

Biden needs to get China to cooperate with the pandemic’s origins investigation

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, acknowledged in mid-June that there was a “premature push” to dismiss the theory that COVID-19 initially spread from...

August 2, 2021 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Hangman-in-chief

Iranian presidential elections have rarely mattered. Both the past victory of the so-called reformists and now the restoration of a tailor made presidency to consolidate the regime, portray something similar...

July 14, 2021 | Aykan Erdemir |

Turkish-Israeli rapprochement is a great idea, if not for Erdogan

Israelis and Turks interested in closer ties between their nations will likely have to wait until 2023 when – if the latest polls are accurate – a disgruntled Turkish electorate is expected to vote the hardline ruler out of office.

July 7, 2021 | Craig Singleton, Gabriel Epstein

The WHO’s Fraudulent Procurement of Chinese PPE Holds Important Lessons for U.S.

The World Health Organization (WHO) violated its own procurement guidelines by improperly awarding contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars to a Chinese state holding company, according to an external...

June 29, 2021 | Richard Goldberg |

Biden Needs an International Organizations Strategy

A U.S. State Department czar should lead a campaign to stop China and Russia from gaining control of multilateral agencies.

June 24, 2021 | Anthony Ruggiero |

New Research Shows Extent of China’s Cover-Up of COVID-19’s Origins

An American research scientist reported on Tuesday that Chinese researchers deleted genetic sequencing data for COVID-19 samples from a U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) database. The deletions highlight...

June 23, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Swiss miss

Biden blew a chance for a win in his meeting with Putin

June 22, 2021 | David Adesnik, Seth J. Frantzman

America’s Syrian Allies Deserve the COVID-19 Vaccine

They vanquished the Islamic State and are now in desperate need of aid.

June 19, 2021 | Cleo Paskal |

Is Covid-19 China’s attempt to wage a silent war?

‘In a world following silent biological warfare, the instigating nations will be the quickest to recover, and ultimately lead the new world order. If this is indeed a sci-fi scenario, caused by Chinese...

June 11, 2021 | Anthony Ruggiero |

The Biden administration’s investigation into COVID-19’s origins misses half of the problem

President Joe Biden’s admission that COVID-19 may have escaped from a Chinese virology lab marks a seminal moment in public debate about the pandemic’s origins. Once ridiculed as fantasy, the so-called...

June 8, 2021 | Elaine K. Dezenski, John Austin

Rebuilding America’s economy and foreign policy with ‘ally-shoring’

Last month, President Joe Biden came to Michigan to push America to seize leadership in making electric vehicles—or risk ceding economic leadership in autos and other fields to China. In doing so, the...

June 6, 2021 | David Asher, Miles Yu, David Feith, Matthew Zweig, Thomas DiNanno

A Just Response to Beijing’s COVID-19 Abuses

Excerpt Nearly 18 months after word of a deadly new virus began leaking out of Wuhan, China, the Chinese government’s response remains fundamentally hostile to international cooperation and transparency....

June 3, 2021 | David Maxwell |

The North Korea Threat Is Growing. U.S.-South Korea Military Training Must Press Forward.

Following the successful Joe Biden-Moon Jae-in summit on May 21, 2021, the Moon administration began backsliding on alliance commitments to military readiness. Specifically, President Moon said COVID-19...

June 3, 2021 | Cameron Khansarinia, Saeed Ghasseminejad

Why America Should Hope the Regime in Iran Collapses

Advancing the collapse of the Islamic Republic will not bog the United States down into another Middle Eastern war or cost further blood and treasure. It can be done by maintaining sanctions on the Islamic Republic and its officials and by beginning a policy of maximum support of the Iranian people.

May 28, 2021 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Only the Chinese Communist Party Knows the Origins of the COVID Pandemic

And it has been withholding, deflecting, and obfuscating the entire time.

May 26, 2021 | Varsha Koduvayur |

Qatar’s Detention of Writer Puts Labor Abuses in the Spotlight Again

Qatar has detained Malcolm Bidali, a 28-year-old Kenyan foreign worker, but will not disclose where he is being held or what charges he faces. While working as a security guard, Bidali chronicled the difficult...

May 24, 2021 | Craig Singleton |

Has Xi’s Multilateral Moment Finally Arrived?

Xi Jinping sure can bring down the house. Before an adoring crowd at the Boao Forum for Asia—China’s version of Davos—Xi outlined a new world order without a single dominant power, but centered...

May 22, 2021 | Cleo Paskal |

‘China turned Covid-19 into biological weapon, committed mass murder’

Somebody should get to the bottom of this (India’s second wave). It is entirely possible China released another pathogen, says Gordon Chang.