How Beijing Is Telling the Story of America’s 250 Years, and Why the Story Keeps Changing
When Washington celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, the celebrations will arrive bruised. There will be the customary...
The Great Abdication: How America’s Retreat Is Ceding the Global South to Its Rivals
The End of an Era for American Influence
The signing of the “Rescissions Act of 2025” on July 24, 2025, is a major milestone in...
When AI Meets the Battlespace: The U.S. Dilemma of Innovation, Risk, and Strategy
Artificial intelligence is not just coming to the battlefield; it is a full-scale structural change. From being sensors that change into decision nodes to...
The ‘Silicon Drain’: When US Tech Sovereignty Erodes Taiwan’s Shield
Strategic planners in the Indo-Pacific region will likely face an unsettling week after the latest reports. The Trump administration is making its way through...
Why the U.S. Shutdown Matters for Global Governance?
The US government started October by entering into a partial shutdown, reflecting the deep-seated partisan divisions that shapes the contours of contemporary American politics....
How Possible is ‘Mission-Impossible’: AI in the 21st Century
Artificial intelligence is undisputedly the buzzword for the century, and everybody seems to have joined the bandwagon in their own right, films being no...
Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill: Reform or Regression?
The bonhomie between the richest man in the world and the most powerful man in the world, i.e., Elon Musk and Donald Trump, collapsed...