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Trump’s push for Greenland heralds a New Great Game for dominance of the resource-rich and fast-opening Arctic   Read More

Next week American President-elect Donald Trump will drop the “elect,” and President Joe Biden will pick up “former”... Read More

The U.S. president-elect claiming credit for the Israel-Hamas agreement has infuriated Joe Biden and his aides, but few in the region doubt... Read More

Israel and Hamas reportedly reached a ceasefire deal that will theoretically see an exchange in its first stage of... Read More

Iraq is a developing democracy, but its location — between Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Syria — means that it always... Read More

Iran’s inability to support Bashar al-Assad’s regime and prevent its collapse, coupled with recent significant blows to... Read More

What will the US-Mexico relationship look like in 2025? As he takes office, President-elect Donald Trump’s priorities and initial... Read More

Departing President Joe Biden offered a farewell brag this week to his State Department about how his tenure had improved America's stature... Read More

On January 21, 2017, the day after his inauguration, U.S. President Donald Trump visited Central Intelligence Agency Headquarters in Langley,... Read More

It’s long past time to reconsider our suicidal obsession with an open society and recognize that America is more than just an idea. Read More

From these beginnings must come a just and lasting settlement for Palestinians and Israelis alike – and a reckoning Read More

Gaza cannot be used as a launching pad for rocket attacks or ground invasions by Hamas. We must increase our vigilance and internalize that... Read More

After being quite comfortable with al-Assad’s tyranny for decades, Israel now fears what Syrian democracy could do and is bent on... Read More

Ukraine is launching a fresh offensive in Russia’s Kursk region, aiming to reclaim the initiative, expose Russia’s... Read More

At the start of the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022, President Joe Biden declared America would support Ukraine “for as long as it... Read More

On January 1, Poland took over the presidency of the Council of the European Union, emphasizing the need to strengthenEuropean security to... Read More

Trump has an epochal opportunity to turn the Danes’ ice wastes into gold.   Read More

Since his election in November 2024, President Donald Trump has staked out strong positions on the importance of the Western... Read More

A new rail line will improve East-West connectivity in Central Asia. This will benefit Europe, but there’s unease in Western capitals... Read More

US user migration from TikTok to yet another Chinese app being touted as ‘Western awakening movement’ in China   Read More

Market forces may have changed China after the Cold War, but the Communist Party still clings to power.   Read More

The Covid-19 pandemic killed an estimated 7.1 million people worldwide, causing global life expectancy to decline by 1.6 years between 2019... Read More

Bryan Clark and Michael Roberts discuss the challenges facing the United States maritime industry on Midrats.   Read More

With Donald Trump only days away from being sworn into what will likely be the most “imperial” of US presidencies since Franklin... Read More

Perhaps the greatest change of direction in the world Zeitgeist derived from the second coming of Trump —and probably the most... Read More

It started out rather differently than we now sometimes imagine it. When Vladimir Putin took over the Russian presidency from Boris Yeltsin... Read More

Right now, Russia knows all it needs to do to prevent a country from joining is to invade and partially occupy it — and that needs to... Read More

The former US president Jimmy Carterdied, at the age of 100, just before news of an imminent deal to free the last of Israel’s hostages... Read More

There are no written assurances the ceasefire will continue beyond the agreed first phase   Read More

"The Prime Minister instructed the negotiating team to stand firm on the agreed understandings and to outright reject Hamas's last-minute... Read More

Across the American economic dashboard, warning indicators are flashing red. Read More

President-elect Donald Trump has a broad popular mandate to thwart Chinese economic warfare against the homeland.   Read More

Syria is stepping into a new reality — but its political contours have yet to take shape.   Read More

Peace seems to have broken out between India and China. On Oct. 23, 2024, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese leader Xi Jinping... Read More

Indonesia’s decision to join BRICS is no strategic pivot but a continuation of its multi-alignment foreign policy. However, Indonesia... Read More

The German establishment’s panic over Elon Musk reveals its true fear of the electorate. Read More

In November last year, thousands of farmers descended on Whitehall to protest against the UK government’s planned changes to... Read More

Most residents in the town of Jerécuaro in Central Mexico were asleep when the car bomb exploded in the plaza at 5.10 am on 24... Read More

The U.S. is weaker and less secure after four years of Democratic government. Will anything change?   Read More

We need to be honest: the ceasefire deal is a boon for Hamas and a blow to Israel. Read More

A good deal is one in which everyone walks away happy or everyone walks away mad. The moods must match. By this standard, the deal between... Read More

Central Asia has become a key region in light of the Ukraine war. A number of external actors –the United States, Germany, France,... Read More

The Mediterranean has always been a theater of rivalries, shifting alliances, and calculated gambles, and Turkey has once again thrown its... Read More

The Houthis come into the new year looking considerably worse as an organization after Hamas and Israel signed a ceasefire. Their disruption... Read More

A new book, ‘The Troublemaker,’ shows how Lai’s Catholic faith and belief in freedom made him China’s most high... Read More