Sri Lanka
Russia and China to Discuss Iranian Nuclear Program Following Joint Naval Drills
UK Threatens Sanctions Snapback on Iran: Deputy foreign ministers from Russia and China will meet in Beijing on March 14 to discuss Iran’s nuclear program. The meeting comes...
Flash Briefs
Sri Lankan Police Arrest Three Locals Over Planned Terror Attack on Israelis
Police in Sri Lanka arrested three locals on October 24 over a planned terrorist attack against Israeli tourists visiting the South Asian island nation. According to the Israeli...
Flash Briefs
Atoning for Britain’s colonialist past
By encouraging China’s colonialist present
Op-eds
Navy should hit back harder against Houthi online disinformation
Last month, Capt. Christopher “Chowdah” Hill, commanding officer of the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower, invited journalists to inspect the flight deck of his carrier while it...
Op-eds
With Chinese warships anchoring in Cambodia, the US needs to respond
The recent mooring of Chinese warships at Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base marked the unofficial inauguration of China’s first overseas naval post in the Indo-Pacific region and only its second overall....
Op-eds
Israel SitRep: April 26, 2024
Today’s Issue: U.S. Begins Construction of Gaza Pier | Missiles Fired From Lebanon Kill Israeli Civilian | IDF Arrests Two Men in West Bank With Axes and Knives | IDF Withdraws Nahal Brigade from Gaza...
Israel at War Situation Report
Iran Rebuffs Argentine Request for Extradition of Key Terrorist Mastermind
Tehran on April 24 rejected an Argentine request for the extradition of Iran’s interior minister for his alleged role in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in...
Flash Briefs
Iran’s president in Sri Lanka, as Argentina seeks arrest of Iran’s interior minister
The AMIA suicide bombing occurred on 18 July 1994 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and targeted the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, a Jewish Community Center.
Op-eds
Tightening the Belt or End of the Road? China’s BRI at 10
Memos
Don’t Forget the Other U.N. Scandal in the Middle East
UNRWA employees’ participation in the 10/7 attack is the gravest crime ever committed by U.N. employees, but another scandal has had the greatest human cost.
Op-eds
What would a maritime security force mean for the Red Sea?
The Iran-backed Houthi attacks have only escalated in the past week by firing on Eilat, having begun in October to match the Hamas massacre.
Op-eds
Cash, corruption, crumbling dams — that’s China’s Belt and Road Initiative, 10 years in
As the celebrations for the BRI’s 10th anniversary kick off, attending countries would do well to ask whether their citizens have anything to gain from 'win-win' cooperation with China, Elaine Dezenski writes.
Op-eds
Italy is about to say to Beijing, ‘Hit the road, Xi’
Rome's anticipated departure from the Belt and Road Initiative likely marks the end of the project’s grand European aspirations, Elaine Dezenski writes.
Op-eds
How Xi Jinping’s Policies Could Lead China to Economic Implosion
At the most basic economic level, China needs the United States—a fact that Xi clearly either hasn’t yet realized or refuses to admit.
Op-eds
China Is Bailing Out Its Bad Bets, and Handing the West a Geopolitical Opening
China has created its own subprime infrastructure crisis, and now it is trying to bail itself out. The rescue efforts are focused on loans for China’s much-touted Belt and Road Initiative, or BRI, Beijing’s...
Op-eds
Preserving U.S. Interests in the Indo-Pacific
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Congressional Testimonies
Two Years On, Syria’s Suspension from the OPCW Was Beneficial
Member States’ Next Act Should be Suspending Russia
Memos
Friends of China have huge influence on Capitol Hill: Grant Newsham
‘When Beijing throws in the allure of money, they make short work of Wall Street and America’s business class—and academia as well.’