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Reciprocity, Selectively Applied: The Contradiction at the Center of the Trump and Xi Summit
When Xi Jinping's plane touches down at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday, he arrives to a reception built for maximum contrast with his last...
AI Governance Must Not Become a Geopolitical Battlefield
As Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump prepare to meet next week, artificial intelligence governance will stand as one of the...
Washington’s Oil Takeover of Venezuela
Eight months after U.S. forces captured Nicolás Maduro, Washington’s involvement in Venezuela has moved far beyond politics. The United States is now gaining a...
America is Running Out of Margin in Iran
The consequences of the war with Iran are now showing up far beyond the Middle East. U.S. Patriot missile stocks in Europe are reportedly...
Russian Provocations on NATO Members Are the Pretext Putin Wants to Save His Regime
Over the past several months, Russia has increased hybrid warfare activities such as acts of sabotage and potential terrorist attacks across Europe. Though Moscow...
AI’s Power Bill Is About to Become a Geopolitical Story, Not Just a Utility One
This summer the Nuclear Regulatory Commission concluded that restarting Three Mile Island's Unit 1 — the plant synonymous with nuclear disaster since 1979 —...
UK-EU Reset: Is Financial Decoupling and Energy Security Undermining the New Partnership?
Three years after Brexit, the UK-EU relationship is not converging. Financial services are diverging deliberately, defense integration is off limits, and energy markets face...
Houthi Advance Tests the Mecca Agreement and Middle East Defense
The Houthi advance in Yemen and the Red Sea region is creating upheavals in the Middle Eastern security structure in general and the conflict...
The Real Story Behind Canada’s EU Deal Isn’t Membership. It’s Minerals
Three weeks before today's ceremony in Strasbourg, American negotiators put a specific demand on the table in Ottawa: a right of first refusal on...
The Politics of Shared Scarcity
Five weeks before the war against Iran began, the Pentagon published a strategy warning that the United States could find itself facing simultaneous major...