China has emerged as America’s primary geopolitical, economic, and military rival, rapidly building a modern industrial base tightly aligned with its strategic ambitions. The United States, by contrast, now depends on overseas suppliers for key components and resources essential to its defense industrial base.
Sometimes, it is said, in order to make a problem smaller, you need to make it bigger first. So it is with the Ukraine war, which is now fast approaching its grim fourth anniversary
China criticizes, sanctions Japan over PM's Taiwan comments;
China builds the world's first floating artificial island;
UK set to approve new PRC mega embassy;
Amsterdam suspends Nexperia takeover;
Chinese stakes in Italy's energy grid raise red flags
Moscow recruits Africans... and others;
Belarussian prisoners forced to aid Russia's war;
Kremlin claims plot against Putin's spiritual advisor;
Kremlin worries about social cohesion;
Russia sources most ammunition from North Korea
Today’s Central Asian reformers are picking up and reviving neglected approaches to politics and society that Islam’s Golden Age turned its back on a millennium ago. They do so as Muslim believers or at least as officials respectful of Islam.