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.