How “Never again!” became “never mind”
To the fashionably woke, Uyghur lives don’t matter
Sri Lanka
Al-Qaeda Is Still in Afghanistan, and It’s Fighting for Victory
The problem with Joe Biden’s ‘over the horizon’ strategy for fighting terrorism.
Op-eds
Yes, Virginia, the Trump Administration Does Have a China Strategy
The administration is pursuing a whole-of-government approach to counter China’s concept of Comprehensive National Power.
Op-eds
Did China help rig the South Korean election?
One of the probable goals of the manipulation, for the CCP at least, is to nurture a political constellation in South Korea that is more likely to eventually move to expel US forces from the peninsula, changing the strategic calculus in the whole Indo-Pacific. This could be a problem for India.
Op-eds
China’s Plan To Buy Iran Won’t Go So Smoothly
Yet Washington should be worried about an enhanced Chinese presence in Iran.
Op-eds
Communist China’s imperialist dreams
The Belt and Road Initiative is about more than infrastructure
Op-eds
Contagion of Chinese Corruption Will Threaten Post-Pandemic Recovery In Developing World
Eventually, the COVID-19 pandemic will end. When it does, the economic devastation the pandemic has left behind will become the overriding concern of governments worldwide. Today, China is working to burnish...
Op-eds
Sri Lankan security forces clash with Islamic State loyalists
The Islamic State’s Amaq News Agency released this photo of two jihadists killed during a security raid in Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan authorities raided a suspected terrorist hideout late yesterday,...
Op-eds
Caliphate, interrupted
After being bombarded by four years of U.S. airstrikes, a relentless ground campaign by Kurdish-led U.S. allies, and attacks from Russian, Syri...
Op-eds
Terrorists in Sri Lanka swore allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
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Op-eds
The China syndrome
Pollsters at the Pew Resear...
Op-eds
Managing Terrorism Financing Risk in Remittances and Money Transfers
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Congressional Testimonies
William Schabas’ Casual Anti-Israeli Bias Makes Him a Perfect Fit For a UN ‘Fact-Finding’ Inquiry
Not too long ago, Canadians would have been beaming with pride at the news that one of their own — renowned international human-rights law expert William Schabas — had been ap...
Op-eds
Eyes Wide Shut to North Korea’s Terror Ties
News of North Korea is dominated right now by Pyongyang’s threats to carry out yet another nuclear test, which would be its fourth since 2006, and its third since President Obama took offic...
Op-eds
Successes and Failures of the U.S. and NATO Intervention in Libya
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Congressional Testimonies
The U.N. Assault on the Catholic Church
In the name of protecting children,the United Nations is now preaching to the Vatican. A report on the Holy See—released by a U.N. committee last week to much media fanfare—alleged th...
Op-eds
‘Responsibility to Protect’ is No Basis for Bombing Syria
In the Saturday edition of the National Post, eminent human rights advocate Irwin Cotler wrote that “if mass atrocities in Syria are not a case for R2P [the Responsibility to Protect doctri...
Op-eds
China’s Ruthless Foreign Policy is Changing the World in Dangerous Ways
Are we witnessing the end of the “American age”? It depends whom you ask. But one thing is certain: Thanks to the near-bankruptcy of the American welfare state, Washington is losing b...
Op-eds
Can a Scarred Muslim Nation Ever Get ‘Truth and Reconciliation’?
No one knows when or how Syria’s civil war will end. Nor Afghanistan’s fight against the Taliban. Nor Pakistan’s struggle against jihadis in its northwestern border region. Iran...
Op-eds
How the Tragedy of 9/11 Made Canada a Better, More Sensible Country
How much has Canada changed in the last eleven years? Consider this: As the World Trade Center rubble was still smoldering, the then-leader of Canada’s left-wing NDP party, Alexa McDonough,...