Last month, Japan released its latest annual defense white paper. The document has a great deal to say about the threats now confronting the island nation, ranging from an increasingly assertive China to a nuclear North Korea. But one of its most important themes concerns something else entirely: the changing nature of warfare itself.
Pro-Russian hacking group declares "cyber war" on Norway;
Russia bans memorial;
Trust in Putin slips as the war comes home;
Danish intelliegnce: Russia is recruiting Danes for sabotage;
Latvia, Lithuania crack down on Russian shipping;
Russia's grip on global uranium tightens
Earlier this month, Chinese President Xi Jinping made a very public state visit to Egypt. Officially, the three-day trip, the first of its kind by a Chinese leader in at least a decade, was intended to commemorate 70 years of bilateral ties between Cairo and Beijing.
Ukraine drone strikes impact shipping to Russia;
With war as a backdrop, an expanded right to seize property;
New bridge brings North Korea still closer;
Discontent and potential for change;
A cold shoulder from the Kremlin...and a quest for new partners
Moscow ramps up naval operations;
The cost of war criticism;
Russia attacks global food supplies;
Another way the Ukraine war is coming home;
Russia prepares for new round of mobilization