Potential oil surplus emboldens Russia and OPEC+;
Another activist makes the government's blacklist;
Nobel Peace Prize laureate fined;
New Chechen legislation seeks to change media language;
Climate change will severely impact St. Petersburg
[T]he Russian government’s current mobilization is designed with some clear goals in mind: to advance its standing at home and improve its strategic posture abroad. It’s an approach that’s succeeding on both fronts — and the reasons have everything to do with propaganda.
The Solomon Islands Crisis Shows America Needs a New Pacific Strategy.
Why won’t Iran cut a deal? Its regime has taken an uncompromising line in renewed talks over its nuclear program. Although that has left the United States and its allies bewildered and frustrated, the regime has solid reasons for doing so.
The developing crisis in Ukraine is an important test case for President Joe Biden and his national security team. The fact that the crisis is still building shows that they have yet to find a recipe for blunting Russian President Vladimir Putin's imperial designs.
New naval weapon uses echoes to instill confusion;
China designing hypersonic EMP...;
...while U.S. paints targets to defend them;
Battle blimps on the horizon
China, Russia, sign 5-year military cooperation agreement;
China's Coast Guard intimidates Philippine vessels;
To Beijing's chagrin, Taiwan opens office in Lithuania;
New textbooks reflect Xi Jinping's dominance;
PLA puts advanced tech at center of reform
What ISIS is saying now on social media;
New tech in the disinformation wars;
Belarus clamps down at home...;
...and misbehaves abroad;
The Kremlin finds a new target: TOR
Last month marked the 26th anniversary of the Dayton Accords, a monumental and controversial peace agreement that ended one of the most violent wars in Southeastern Europe’s history. On November 21, 1995, the United States brokered the agreement that ended three years of ethnic violence and genocide in Bosnia & Herzegovina, which had broken out in the wake of Yugoslavia’s dissolution. The Dayton Accords, signed by the presidents of Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia, laid out new terms for the people of Bosnia, including a tripartite presidency that would represent each of the three major ethnicities: Bosniaks, Serbs, and Croats. The accords resulted in an uneasy, but relatively stable peace.
India builds tunnel to supply troops along China border;
China builds mockups of U.S. Navy ships for missile target practice;
As births decline so does China's population;
Taiwan government shutters China center at premier university;
Seoul scrambles fighter jets as Chinese, Russian aircraft enter ADIZ
The world’s most notorious terrorist group is making another worrying expansion in Africa. It poses massive implications for the international community.
New Zealand's new anti-terror law;
After America, militancy surges in Afghanistan;
Mali's CT strategy: negotiations and outsourcing;
Hamas' secret stash
Russian plans to shut down NGO roil Berlin;
Citizen apathy aids "foreign agent" policies;
A Russian show of force in support of Belarus;
India risks U.S. sanctions for Russian defenses;
Putin talks Belarus migrant crisis;
Ukraine crisis highlights U.S. intelligence shortfalls
Washington, Seoul once again seek to officially end Korean War;
Israel and India announce 10-year defense cooperation plan;
Beijing lobbies for ASEAN to include Burma's junta...;
...while backstopping the Tatmadaw;
India-Pakistan feud delays critical food aid to Afghanistan
As talks resume over reviving the 2015 global nuclear agreement with Iran, the United States needs to alter the dynamics of its relationship with Tehran if it hopes to secure a deal that will serve American interests.
While much of the world was focused on the recent climate summit in Scotland, China had its eye on a very different environmental issue. For the fifth year in a row, China, with Russian assistance, used an international forum to prevent the establishment of new marine protected areas along the coast of Antarctica. Beijing is increasingly interested in the southern continent, and for all the wrong reasons.
What precisely does the Biden administration want to accomplish in its diplomacy with Iran? With new talks over Iran's nuclear program now underway in Vienna, it’s a question worth asking.
Gazprom to Europe's rescue;
Navalny ally behind bars;
Prosecutors dismiss case against torture whistleblower;
U.S.-Ukrainian ties strengthen over Russian military concerns;
A new Russian missile system on the way?;
France frets over Wagner's potential deal in Mali
India deploys U.S., Israeli weapons system along China border;
China's carbon emissions set to surpass pre-pandemic levels;
Northern China sees heavy smog and coal production spike;
China's $440 billion nuclear buildout;
As new law takes effect, Yahoo and LinkedIn leave China
In a much-publicized address in 2005, then-Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick laid out the prevailing wisdom in Washington regarding the proper way to approach the People's Republic of China (PRC). "Chinese leaders have decided that their success depends on being networked with the modern world," Zoellick argued before the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. As a result, he contended, the U.S. needed to make every effort to turn the PRC into a "responsible stakeholder" on the world stage.
China may well be America’s biggest global threat. Nevertheless, U.S. policymakers must remain prepared to confront a hostile leader in Moscow who, too, is committed to challenging America and the West whenever and however he can.
U.S. intel official warns: China seeks to dominate advanced tech;
China's cyberspace administration to eliminate "illegal publishing and reprinting";
U.S. revokes license of China telecom;
Hong Kong passes new film censorship law;
Beijing wants "new media platforms that cover the entire world"
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.
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Harvard Beijing Academy moves to Taipei;
U of HK orders removal of statue commemorating Tiananmen protests;
Tight funding, facility shortages top list of education challenges;
Xi pushes property tax legislation;
China provides economic and political support to the Taliban
After September's vote, fissures in the Russian opposition;
Russia freezes diplomatic ties to NATO;
Moscow heads toward partial lockdown;
The Kremlin holds Afghan stability talks;
Communist Party's first electoral lawsuit shot down;
Russia fears a strong Ukraine
Mental health survey: Many cases of depression, lack of treatment;
News leaks of U.S. secretly training Taiwan forces...;
...as Beijing warns Washington;
Microsoft to shut down LinkedIn app in China;
Apple Store crackdown hits holy books and Amazon's Audible
The Biden administration’s announcement that it will limit economic sanctions as a tool of foreign policy could prove significant, since it follows two decades in which policymakers of both parties dramatically increased the use of sanctions against governments, individuals, and entities that they considered bad actors.
Disinformation is reshaping Kenyan discourse;
China's widening social media manipulation;
The U.S. Army focuses on the "information advantage";
Russian disinfo campaigns getting around western defenses;
How AI will revolutionize propaganda
Novaya Gazeta's Muratov awarded Nobel Peace Prize;
Why Russians are fleeing;
Russia brandishes its energy weapon;
ROSCOSMOS in the crosshairs'
Justice denied for gulag historian
With AUKUS, Canberra serves notice to Beijing;
As China increases air sorties, Taiwan signals Australia and America;
BRI frustration festers in Beijing's backyard;
Vietnam angles to offset China's influence over Laos and Cambodia;
North Korea shows growing signs of strains in public health, economy
The Communist challenge to Putin's Russia;
Now, plans underway for an Arctic fleet;
Justice Ministry targets more outlets and journalists;
Malian deal with Wagner looms
Adapting to adversary radar, on the fly;
New testing for airborne directed energy weapons;
Next up: Solar powered drones?;
3D printed smart armor;
Optimizing high speed drone flight
Industry report: China-DRC mining deal "unconscionable";
Ethiopia's national airline implicated in weapons shipments...;
...as Ahmed closes Ethiopian embassy in Dublin;
Egypt eyes Africa's tech market;
Algeria's circle of friends gets smaller
Whatever happened to America's Syria policy?
Activist exposes prison torture;
The Kremlin and Russia's carbon footprint;
Russian diplomats in the U.S. threatened with expulsion;
Deterring Russia: The view from Warsaw;
Russia's dangerous energy leverage over Europe
Sudan seizes Hamas assets;
Saudi textbooks trend more tolerant;
Next up, a nuclear Taliban?;
Iraq and the "Abraham Accords"
Crimean drought escalates tensions between Ukraine and Russia;
Climate change and the military;
Congress focuses on rare earths as part of infrastructure bill...;
...and in new legislation;
After withdrawal, a new contest over Afghanistan
For the Kremlin, everyone is a "foreign agent";
Putin tightens the fiscal belt;
Pandora Papers implicate Putin's inner circle;
Back to arms control with Moscow
The West faces a key test of its commitment to human rights as the Taliban cements its rigid rule in Kabul.
PLA suffers from shortage of recruits and "low troop morale";
Lithuania urges Europeans to toss Chinese phones;
Huawei Chairman: U.S. sanctions to blame for $30-$40B in revenue loss;
China makes all cryptocurrency transactions illegal;
Facing crisis, Beijing orders energy firms to secure supplies
The message from Israel’s top leadership could not be any clearer: It is prepared to act to prevent a nuclear Iran.
Revolutionized radar;
Russia's new, more versatile rifle;
How the world should approach gene editing;
A replacement for today's tanks;
Force fields forthcoming?
Iran's regime continues to struggle with Covid...;
...and backtracks on Western vaccine ban;
Iranian-Saudi reconciliation inches forward...or does it?;
A warning over Iran's nuclear progress
Russia refocuses on demography;
U.S. travel rules don't recognize Russian vaccines;
In Russia, a raging pandemic;
Now, expanded Russian gas headed to Hungary;
At Sochi, a Russo-Turkish thaw
Iran's impending entry into the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), the Eurasian bloc that China and Russia lead, has great potential to limit U.S., Israeli and Western leeway in confronting Tehran's nuclear and hegemonic aspirations, sponsorship of international terrorism and efforts at regional de-stabilization.