China accuses U.S. of building a NATO in the Pacific;
Pentagon Attack on Taiwan would produce "robust" response;
Taliban and Chinese mining firm restart copper mining talks;
Taiwan wants to join the CPTPP and Quad;
China, Solomon Islands sign security cooperation memo
Americas lithium production problem;
The Pentagon plans a green footprint;
Russian tactics could spark an environmental disaster
For more than a year, reversing the "maximum pressure" policy of its predecessor and hammering out some sort of nuclear compromise with Iran has been the centerpiece of the Biden administration's Mideast policy.
Let’s not be too hard on President Biden simply for saying what most people believe.
PRC hackers infiltrate a half-dozen U.S. state networks;
China expands censorship to thwart "foreign forces";
China video game freeze threatens the industry;
Tencent joins Alibaba in declaring support for tech crackdown;
Marriages hit 36-year low
Russia's grim economic outlook;
Closing a ruble loophole;
Putin looks for internal scapegoats;
Why Russians back Putin's war
Washington has long considered Tehran the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, recognizing that Iran conducts its terrorist activities largely through the IRGC.
Taking them off the list as a concession to tempt Tehran back into a nuclear proliferation deal would be dangerous — and would undermine the deal itself.
A humanitarian mission in Ukraine? What a great idea.
More multinationals eye the exits…;
...as Russia's tech isolation deepens;
In Ukraine, echoes of the Syrian War;
Putin's Syrian legion
Yesterday, Iranian terrorist proxies, the Houthi, attacked a Saudi Aramco petroleum-distribution plant at Jeddah, setting a storage facility on fire.
Iran’s economic fortunes — and its strategic ambitions — are already expanding, even ahead of any new deal with the West, thanks to the soaring world price of oil.
Assessing the Iranian threat…;
...and Tehran's strategic ambitions…;
...as the White House mulls bringing the IRGC in from the cold;
the Islamic Republic versus the internet, continued;
Iranian-Saudi talks fizzle
Putin’s stranglehold on global energy markets has loosened in the intervening years.
Western news outlets close up shop…;
..as the Kremlin targets Russian media;
The birth of RuNet?;
An attempted Russian exodus
China asked Russia to delay Ukraine war until after Olympics;
China evacuates thousands from Ukraine;
Russian firms rush to open RMB accounts at Chinese banks;
Anti-Russian war voices grow louder in China;
China expands localities for digital currency trials
Israel has publicly tip-toed around Russia’s invasion. Since Russia crossed Ukraine’s border in late February, Jerusalem has studiously avoided blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin by name.
Washington uses Huawei playbook to hit Russia;
India, UAE on verge of doubling trade;
On debts to China, Sri Lanka looks to India for help;
Nepal approves U.S. development assistance, despite China's warnings;
Jakarta looks beyond Russian arms to balance Beijing
Russia rediscovered its imperial vocation before NATO enlargement, and the war in Ukraine is, in fact, about Putin’s great power ambitions.
Russia's reshuffled disinformation deck...;
...and hard times for Moscow's main messaging outlet;
The rise of Ukrainian persuasion;
China's disinformation campaign in Lithuania;
Iranian disinfo target Israeli unity
As the world is distracted by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and while President Joe Biden condemns Vladimir Putin on the world stage -- the U.S. is in talks with Kremlin negotiators to revive the agreement with the Islamic fundamentalist leaders of Iran.
The only mention of Iran in President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday was an unintentional one.
The invasion of Ukraine is the worst foreign policy misjudgment to come out of Moscow since the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05.
Rumblings of a wider war;
A corporate exodus;...;
...and a tightening domestic climate
U.S. Justice Department ends its China initiative
Anti-graft agency criticizes China's top 25 banks;
China's banks restrict Russian USD credit for commodity deals;
Mongolia "cleans up" anti-China activists;
China invests nearly $4 billion in three new coal mines
In their continuing reluctance to impose all possible sanctions on Russia, the United States and its allies were sending a dangerous signal not only to Moscow, but to autocratic leaders in Beijing, Tehran, and elsewhere.
* * * SPECIAL ISSUE: Putin's War In Ukraine * * *
Russia's real objective: halting NATO expansion;
A perverse defense of Ukraine;
Ukraine's military as a threat;
The economic dimensions of the conflict
Few things unite the political Right in America as strongly as concern over the malign activities of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Taiwan boosts sanctions against China's economic espionage;
China enticing Taiwanese talent and firms to migrate;
Anger among neighbors mounts at Chinese dams;
China's censors remove gay story-lines from 'Friends';
Australia accuses China of "act of intimidation" after aircraft incident
From bad to worse in Chechnya;
Putin's superyacht heads home;
Russian elites in the crosshairs, White House warns;
CSTO sees NATO as a threat;
Poll: Europeans back Ukraine against Russia
Ask any Middle Eastern observer about the current conflict between Russia and the West over Ukraine, and you're liable to get a quizzical look. T
Tens of thousands of Hongkongers relocating to Taiwan;
Putin offers Xi a new gas deal;
China encroaches along Nepal border;
Japan parliament resolution criticizes China;
Korea urged to explore ways to reduce China reliance
China's threat is "more brazen" than ever – FBI director;
Tech "decoupling" hurts China more than the U.S.;
House passes sweeping China competition bill;
U.S., UK, Australia, and Taiwan join EU-China WTO Challenge;
Pentagon approves $100 million in taiwan missile upgrades
Ethiopian peace remains elusive;
Turkey's growing African footprint;
Islamism plagues the Sahel;
U.S. pauses Sudan aid after recent violence
“Society is in a state of explosion,” an official from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) warned in a leaked seven-page state document that Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty recently reported on, and “social discontent has risen by 300 percent in the past year.”
The Islamic State (ISIS) is once again gaining momentum.
Some of President Joe Biden's failures, from the Afghanistan surrender to skyrocketing inflation, have gotten extensive—and well-deserved—press attention. But there is another fiasco that has as yet gone largely unnoticed: climate.
At least some of the Russian president's supporters have come to believe the costs of his planned adventurism would outweigh any possible benefits.
Russia's intelligentsia opposes war;
The consequences of a Russian invasion;
A court victory for descendants of political prisoners
Russia looks for conscripts... in Ukraine;
The pandemic and Russia's population problem;
Another Navalny ally in the crosshairs;
A pretext for action;
Dissent in the (military) ranks
Revenge for Soleimani still dominates Iranian strategic thinking;
An Afghan influx…;
...And hydrological tensions with Iraq;
"People's tribunal" charges the Islamic Republic
How Russian authorities are tracking activists;
Russia's new "crowd control" robot;
The Kremlin versus cryptocurrency;
Fears of a Kremlin coup plot for Kyiv;
The growing risk of a limited war
Hong Kong to broaden its definition of spying;
American films get ending makeovers in China;
Scientist defects with details of China’s new hypersonics;
EU launches WTO case against China over Lithuania embargo;
Former top inspector gets suspended death sentence for corruption
Climate change and U.S. intelligence;
A new worry with regard to China: Batteries;
Study: Military emissions underreported;
India, Russia eye Arctic energy
China hires American influencers to polish image during Olympics;
JIA: Blindly pursuing absolute security will make us less secure;
PRC targets Taiwan with massive disinformation campaign;
HK chief exec. appoints national security judges, ends trial by jury;
Credits on Chinese TV will label foreign actors
These are trying times in the U.S.-Moroccan relationship
How resilient is the Russian economy?;
Lionizing GAZPROM;
A fresh look at "Putin's palace”;
Recognition for Ukraine's enclaves, perhaps
3D printing: a key space-enabling technology;
Chinese AI is designing weapons;
Space solar power sees sunlight;
China speeds hypersonic weapon production…;
...while also improving effectiveness
Why aren’t Beijing’s ambitions in the region obvious to Washington?