Rooting Out Emerging American Authoritarianism
We Americans don't know what it means to live in an authoritarian state unless we are first generation immigrants who came from one or...
Behind the Communiqué: What China’s Latest Party Plenum Reveals About Its Economic Future
All eyes are on Beijing as the Communist Party of China (CPC) convenes to outline the next five years. These meetings take place amidst...
Blueprint for a Modern China: The 15th Five-Year Plan and the 2035 Vision
Looking ahead, the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030) will be critical as China’s mission to reinforce the foundations and push ahead on all fronts toward...
How the Yugoslav Wars Grew NATO and Subsequently Molded Vladimir Putin
In the 1990s, Europe witnessed one of the most harrowing conflicts since World War II, which involved widespread war crimes, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and...
The Illusion of Freedom: Latin America’s Authoritarian Drift
Latin America’s political landscape has seen sweeping shifts in recent years. On one hand, a so-called “second Pink Tide” has returned left-of-centre governments to...
A Narrow Passage, A Grand Plan: How the U.S. Aims to Strangle China’s Naval Ambitions
Marilyn Hubalde recalls the fear of local residents in Batanes, Philippines, when they first heard military helicopters during joint exercises with U. S. troops...
Tanzania’s 2025 Elections: No Real Race, No Real Reform
Political Landscape & Key Contenders
Tanzania’s ruling Party of the Revolution (CCM) has dominated the country’s politics ever since its independence over 60 years ago....
Argentine Midterm elections. And the winner is… Donald Trump
No one anticipated last Sunday midterm election result in Argentina. Not even the executive, that faced a dire situation on the way to the...
Trump-Xi’s ‘12 Out of 10’ Meeting Leaves Europe Watching From the Sidelines
President Donald Trump called it a “12 out of 10.” Xi Jinping called it “a new start.” Markets exhaled. But in Brussels, the mood...
South-South Cooperation in Action: The China-Egypt Partnership
Relations between Egypt and China have proven their ability to keep pace with international and regional transformations. China is one of Egypt's major trading...