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China’s Iran Dilemma: What Happens If Tehran Quits the NPT—and War With the US Erupts?
China opposes the US and Western escalation against Iran and insists on condemning the US and Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear targets. China considers...
The Ulchi Freedom Shield Cuts: Why Did the US Rattle Its Most Important Asian Ally?
When a US president scales back military exercises with a key Pacific ally hours before they begin, and offers two contradictory reasons for doing...
The Patriot Problem: America Can’t Build Missiles Fast Enough
On July 23, Volodymyr Zelensky told Ukrainians that Raytheon wanted to help produce Patriot interceptors on Ukrainian-linked lines. Five days later, Lockheed Martin signed...
How Many Nuclear Weapons Does North Korea Really Have?
South Korea estimates that North Korea possesses between 80 and 120 nuclear warheads, putting Seoul's assessment well above the figure recently cited by U.S....
A Closer Look at Iran’s Hardliner-Reform Divide
The hardliner–pragmatist divide is a useful analytical framework for understanding the main disagreement over the war, but the reality of power within the Islamic...
The Army That Can’t Do the One Thing It’s Been Asked To Do
Three villages. That is the full extent of Lebanese Armed Forces control under the “pilot zone” framework that Washington brokered in June — Zawtar...
Why Is Trump Pressuring South Korea Over Iran and Investment?
The United States and South Korea have long relied on their military alliance to deter North Korea and maintain stability on the Korean Peninsula....
Beijing’s Coalition of Drills: How China Is Renting Normalcy in Contested Waters
By chaining bilateral naval exercises across a widening circle of partners — Russia, Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and now Indonesia — Beijing is not...
Why Did U.S. Military Research Help China Build a Robot Dog Industry?
The rapid rise of China’s Unitree Robotics has exposed a striking paradox at the centre of the U.S. China technology competition: some of the...
Could Britain’s Drone Support for Ukraine Push Russia Toward a Wider Confrontation?
Russia’s latest warning to Britain over the supply of drones to Ukraine highlights how Western military assistance is increasingly moving beyond conventional support and...