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Is a Weaker Euro Giving Europe the Currency Advantage It Wants Against China?

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Canada’s Shift Away from the US: Realignment or Diversification?

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The Persistent Myth of Lower Prices

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China Tests ‘Iron Triangle’ System to Counter Drone Swarms in Major Military Exercise

The Chinese Iron Triangle system is the latest integrated...

North Korea’s New Missile Threat: What It Means for China, Taiwan and US Defenses

The intelligence and data centers, the Academy of Military...

NATO Is Winning the War Russia Isn’t Fighting

On 23 September, a Russian Mi-8 helicopter flying from...

McNamara’s Lessons for the Drone Age

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Why the Road Back to US-Iran Talks Still Runs Through Islamabad?

The June framework has become the shared vocabulary of...

Multi-Alignment Pays, but Washington and Beijing Set the Price

One Week, Three Prices On 17 September the US State...

Why Asia and Africa Are Moving Closer on Trade, Sovereignty and Multilateralism

The 81st UNGA, which is the main deliberative, policymaking,...

Small-State Diplomacy in an Era of Geopolitical Fragmentation

At a time when international diplomacy is under extraordinary...

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China Tests ‘Iron Triangle’ System to Counter Drone Swarms in Major Military Exercise

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France Seizes Another Russian Shadow Fleet Tanker as Moscow Cries ‘Piracy’

France's military seized a tanker believed to be part...

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