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Even if the BRICS cannot offer an alternative global reserve currency to the dollar, the group is still making major inroads against the... Read More

The expansion and growing influence of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and other allies) represent an unprecedented... Read More

What could possibly go wrong? The president, now perhaps in name only, reportedly decided to loose American munitions on Russia, a step... Read More

In a single post, the president-elect told the world what the end of the Ukraine war might look like. And it is going to be a big diplomatic... Read More

Russia’s ruble is in trouble. The currency has plunged to its lowest rate against the dollar since the weeks after the outbreak of war... Read More

Last week, the Brookings Institution held a security conference with Adm. Samuel J. Paparo, commander of United States Indo-Pacific... Read More

In late September, the Biden administration issued a draft rule that would ban Chinese connected and autonomous vehicles and their components... Read More

China declares modest new baselines around contested Scarborough Shoal, enclosing a much smaller strategic area than previously feared   Read More

Here are four ways that Donald Trump and Giorgia Meloni can capitalize on their countries’ natural alignment.   Read More

The Lebanese ceasefire squeezes Tehran's allies   Read More

As Israel and Iran clash, Iraq’s Shia leadership is trying to rein in domestic Iranian-backed paramilitaries to shield the country from... Read More

The UK's proposed definition of Islamophobia does not combat hatred; it invites it.     Read More

The police turning up at someone’s door over a tweet has become alarmingly mundane in Britain. Read More

When Angela Merkel left the German chancellorship in December 2021, after 16 years in power, she had a credible claim to being one... Read More

From America's 250th birthday to the the 2026 World Cup, President-elect Donald Trump will enjoy the global spotlight during a... Read More

The IRGC is one of the most powerful organizations in Iran, conceived as the principal defender of the 1979 revolution, and now a critical... Read More

When U.S. President Joe Biden leaves office in January, the already-faint prospect of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian... Read More

The ceasefire announced between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon enters into force today. It does, however, contain several... Read More

In KfarKela and in a variety of other villages, Hezbollah forces started to try to enter areas that the IDF has defined as no-go zones for... Read More

As many of us travel across the country to visit relatives and to indulge in some post-election crow, we mean turkey this... Read More

President Joe Biden‘s fentanyl diplomacy with China is under scrutiny as President-elect Donald Trump’s team seeks a harder... Read More

Chinese president Xi Jinping on Thursday celebrated the opening of a new port that his state-owned shipping company Cosco has built in the... Read More

George Yeo, the former foreign minister of Singapore, spoke last month about why China's unique character suggests they do not have any... Read More

It is both a pitiful and contemptible state of affairs when within a few days of each other the pope writes, at least as a personal... Read More

I was expecting Starmer to be awful. But less than six months into his premiership, his government’s prissy authoritarianism,... Read More

In the heartland of Germany’s biggest carmaker, Volkswagen, politicians have long been able to forestall the worst. Now, it seems, they... Read More

Anew Anglo-Saxon barbarism has entered the French political language: ‘government shutdown.’ There is excited talk of civil... Read More

The president-elect is already playing hardball with our dysfunctional southern neighbors.   Read More

Moscow moving to make Kabul key component of Greater Eurasian Partnership plan to trade more with South Asia and reduce reliance on... Read More

Facing increasing Russian hostility to Central Asian immigrants, Central Asian countries are instead encouraging their nationals to go to... Read More

President-elect Donald Trump has been talking tough about China for years. He hates China’s enormous trade surplus with... Read More

The new European Defense Commissioner’s priority should be boosting private finance for European defense companies.   Read More

Israel continues to battle Hezbollah, with diplomatic efforts for a ceasefire scuttled by the travel freeze that International... Read More

Offering economic incentives that compete with Beijing and Moscow’s carrots while enhancing security cooperation is essential for the... Read More

Depends on who you ask, but there is a history here that may be difficult to escape       Read More

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is a political survivor. For more than 20 years, first as Turkey’s Prime Minister and then as its... Read More

Remain in Mexico worked very well under President Trump’s first term and foreshadows a more tranquil border very soon. Read More

The fallout from a riot in Montreal on Friday afternoon has reverberated across the Canadian news landscape in the days since, with... Read More