The curious case of Kirill Zhalo;
Moscow businesses struggle with lockdown closures;
Russia says U.S. presence in Black Sea provocative;
Russia plows ahead with submarine modernization;
"Non-working days" extended in five Russian regions;
Polish PM accuses Putin of masterminding migrant crisis
Biden vows to defend Taiwan if China attacks;
U.S. warns of Beijing's efforts to collect genetic data;
China-based hackers attack Hillel Yaffe Medical Center;
China to build outpost for Tajik forces near Xinjiang, Afghan border;
China rations electricity and diesel amid shortages
Russia's "non-working week" begins with grim markers;
Natural gas reversal a signal to Europe;
Russia comes to the climate change table:
Russia focuses on nuclear, missile modernization;
The tense Russian-Ukrainian border;
Bringing North Korea in from the cold
Today, the Egyptian state faces no shortage of strategic threats, ranging from instability emanating from the ongoing crisis next door in Libya to an escalating conflict with nearby Ethiopia over access to the Nile. Yet its biggest long-term challenge is a distinctly domestic one: the quickening pace of its own population.
How countries weigh the trade-off between economic relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and military protection from the United States will determine much of the 21st Century’s geopolitics.