Not Chaos but Grand Strategic Design: The Hidden Logic Behind Washington’s Recent Moves
Most analyses of recent American actions—from Venezuela to Iran—start from the same premise: that US policy has become erratic, reactive, and overly dependent on...
Zimbabwe’s Lithium Export Ban: China’s Battery Supply Chain in an Era of Resource Nationalism
Zimbabwe’s lithium export ban in late February changed how resource-rich countries are approaching the global supply chains. By tightening its control over its resources,...
Active Suasion to Kinetic Action; US’s Iran Odyssey
Kinetic action starts the moment persuasion fails, and the US-Iran adventure is one classic example of that. The US had it all planned out;...
Missiles Over Diplomacy as Iran Defies Trump and Escalates War
Tensions between Iran and Israel surged sharply after Tehran launched waves of missiles targeting Israeli cities, including Tel Aviv. The strikes came just a...
China Maps the Deep to Rewrite the Rules of Undersea War
China is rapidly expanding a vast ocean mapping and monitoring effort across the Pacific, Indian and Arctic oceans, gathering highly detailed data on seabed...
From Beijing Talks to Moscow Pact: North Korea’s Long Game Against Denuclearization
The Six-Party Talks (SPT) launched in 2003 with the first round held in Beijing. They continued through six rounds until 2007 but completely broke...
The Strategic Paradox: A War with Iran Threatens to Undermine US Power While Strengthening China
The choice of military escalation in the conflict with Iran is an important juncture in modern geopolitics. However, while the conflict is justified in...
How a U.S.-Israeli Conflict With Iran Reshapes Security and Economies Worldwide
In this interview, Professor Sergiu Mișcoiu at the Faculty of European Studies, Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca (Romania), where he also serves as a director...
America’s Gulf Bases Are No Longer Shields: The Limits of U.S. Military Power
Authors: Muhammad Rauhan Rasheed and Asif Al Hasan*
In an interesting development, the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, refused to be a part of the...
Behind China’s Abstention: The Calculus of Not Condemning Iran’s Gulf Strikes
China abstained from voting on UN Security Council Resolution 2817 in March 2026, which condemned Iranian attacks on Gulf states and Jordan by a...