This unorthodox university event reflects the moral confusion on issues of global concern that afflicts all-too-many institutions of higher learning these days. For while the university justified the event on free speech grounds, it applied the notion of free speech with striking selectivity.
China is fast transforming into the global epicenter of totalitarian terror.
Washington is facing a critical arms control dilemma, with the New START Treaty due to expire, Russia developing a range of strategic weapons outside the treaty, and China meanwhile significantly building up its nuclear forces.
[T]he Palestinian Authority needs to join the new political wave, or get left behind.
[W]hile most don’t know it, the Space Force is positioned to be among the most powerful organizations enabling and advancing a global green agenda.
Last week marked the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon that ushered in what has come to be known as the "global war on terror." The occasion provides an opportune moment to take stock of the prevailing trends in America's longstanding struggle against Islamic extremism. Unfortunately, the news is anything but encouraging.
Congress should adopt legislation applicable to U.S. firms similar to that it imposes on Europeans and impose retroactive financial sanctions on the companies which are bringing millions of tons of Russian crude oil to America.
[T]he current turmoil at USAGM is politically motivated. It isn't. It is, rather, a contest between the status quo and a new way of doing business that is less favorable to underwriting mere advocacy that contributes little to the actual fight for internet freedom, and is more focused on responsibly funding effective technology to counter censorship abroad.
It’s a fairly common occurrence for lower-level documents to be superseded by new policy decisions, requiring framing and language to be rewritten. But it doesn’t often happen to documents of such importance.
Suddenly, a revolution seems to be brewing in Belarus.
On August 13, President Donald Trump announced that he had succeeded in brokering a peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
America’s vision for space is evolving. Rapidly.
That Hezbollah wields so much power in Beirut is partly a function of Lebanon’s governing structure and partly of its own designs.
As support builds to mandate the newest branch adopt a maritime culture, so do the arguments against it.
The recent capture of thirty-two of Moscow’s mercenaries gives the Belarusian leader at least some leverage in future talks with his Russian counterpart.
The new strategic pact between Iran and China is a lifeline for the regime in Tehran... and a serious threat to America's efforts to contain Iran's global menace.
The past few days have been momentous ones for America's approach to space.
Iranian authorities have taken pains to downplay the extent of the domestic disruption that has been caused by the disease, and moved early to reopen the national economy.
Seven years ago, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) warned its members to "forcefully resist influential and harmful false tides of thought."
Radical Islamic extremism established a presence in Central Asia in the late Soviet era.
A new China-Iran economic and military agreement and this fall's expiration of the global arms embargo on Iran could dramatically upend international relations by expanding China's global reach, empowering Iran to threaten America's regional allies, undercutting U.S. efforts to pressure both nations and further destabilizing the Middle East.
The Iranian Islamic revolution of 1979 had important implications throughout the Islamic world, and Turkey has been no exception.
With its embrace of the Amman Message, China has succeeded in finishing what its economic investments began.
America now needs a concrete plan to cement its position as the planet's dominant space power.
Moscow and Beijing face both challenges and opportunities in the “Post-Soviet Space.”
Since it began nearly four years ago, the PRC's campaign to pacify its majority-Muslim province of Xinjiang has taken on truly horrifying proportions.
Amid a surge in domestic discontent with his regime, the Russian president is moving to tighten his grip on the country's Web access.
Could a new generation of missile defenses help?
[A] society that bemoans its faults but ignores its considerable virtues—its values, liberties, sacrifices and accomplishments—will lack the confidence in itself and the standing with others necessary to lead the world.
You wouldn't know it from the popular press, but the Trump administration's campaign of "maximum pressure" against Iran is working.
Since April of 2019, when the idea was first floated publicly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu's plan to annex portions of the West Bank and Jordan River Valley has become widely unpopular.
Congress could ...create a working capital fund for space development. Doing so would ensure that America can incubate the innovation it needs to confront the hypersonic threat — and to look beyond it.
No one knows how the U.S.-China relationship will evolve in the next month, let alone the coming decade. In this way, policymaking is always a gamble of sorts. But if you know your opponent has a losing hand, playing the odds becomes easier. When it comes to China, Pompeo has this diplomatic acumen in spades.
On May 27, the U.S. Department of State formally assessed that Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from mainland China
Only months after officially announcing its decision to partner with Chinese tech giant Huawei in building 5G telecom technology for the United Kingdom, the administration of Prime Minister Boris Johnson now appears to be reconsidering the move
...Trump’s decision to abandon the WHO — like his recent suggestion that he will invite Russia to the next G-7 meeting — will further complicate America’s efforts if it ever needs to rally its closest friends.
This Spring, the Trump administration formally released its official strategy for Central Asia...and made clear that it views Central Asia as a world region where the United States has intrinsic economic and security interests.
[T]he U.S. needs to demonstrate renewed regional leadership and work with producer, consumer and transit countries on the design and implementation of the missing large-scale infrastructure—like a new, larger scale pipeline connecting Azerbaijan to Europe—that can spur even greater integration of the region with the West in the years ahead.
The conflict between Israel and Iran has just entered a new phase - in cyberspace.
Since its outbreak earlier this year, the coronavirus has exacted a massive human toll around the world.
Earlier this month, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to Israel on his first foreign visit since the outbreak of the global coronavirus pandemic...the Secretary’s visit was intended ...to put Israel’s government on notice that it needed to rethink its growing political, economic and strategic ties to the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
With Japan, the administration stands to damage relations at precisely the wrong time.
Earlier this Spring, the leadership of the U.S. Space Force, the country’s newest military branch, announced that it plans to roll out a new doctrine in the near future. But what that doctrine will look like remains to be seen — and Congress, which will be the ultimate arbiter of the document and the vision it contains, needs to ensure that the country gets it right.
If Chinese leaders really want peaceful unification, they need a mutually respectful approach.
Rather than sing the same sad song about the source of the coronavirus, the United States needs to lead a choir of nations in a hymn about how this pandemic, like SARS before it, was made possible by the lack of transparency intrinsic to China’s national socialist political system. It is only through collaboration among democracies can the United States seize the day and create what the world desperately needs: a muscular coalition of like-minded nations that will prevail in this crisis, as well as secure the future of free markets and liberal values in its aftermath.
The experiment is one of the brightest signals yet that the U.S. plans to pursue grand world-changing ideas like space solar power.
During the holy month of Ramadan, now underway, when TV viewership among Muslims traditionally skyrockets, Saudi Arabia’s MBC network is airing a series about Jewish families in a fictional Arab country in the late 1940s — a series that speaks volumes about what’s changing, and what isn’t, across the region.
Call it the new "China consensus."