More: front
Reality Check: Burhan’s Wall Street Journal piece misses more than half of Sudan’s tragedy
It was an interesting editorial choice by the Wall Street Journal to give General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the leader of the Sudanese Armed Forces...
500 Thousand Tickets Lost! What Strategy Lies Behind China’s Travel Ban to Japan?
In response to a controversial statement made by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, more than 500,000 airline tickets purchased by Chinese citizens for travel...
How the War in Ukraine Could End: Scenarios for a Peace Deal
U. S. President Donald Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss a possible peace deal to end the war...
IMEC: A Corridor Built on Optimism, Destined for Reality Check
In February 2025, President Donald Trump praised the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) as ‘one of the greatest trade routes in history.’ While such...
A Crowded Orbit and the Rising Threat of Anti-Satellite Weapons to Global Stability
A New Security Frontier
Outer space is becoming crowded at the same moment the world is growing more dependent on satellites. We rely on them...
Ukraine and the US Open Peace Talks in Florida: A Major Opportunity, but Fraught with Risks
Over the weekend, a high-level Ukrainian delegation secretly landed in Florida to begin a new round of talks with the US government in an...
Behind diplomatic crisis, Japan’s economic slide
On October 21, Sanae Takaichi, the president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), was voted in as the 104th prime minister of Japan;...
“America First” And Planetary Survival: A Primal Contradiction
"The egocentric ideal of a future reserved for those who have managed to attain egoistically the extremity of `everyone for himself' is false and...
The Houthis and the Rise of Asymmetric Strategy: War is No Longer the Monopoly of States
The Houthi attack on merchant ships in the Red Sea shows that asymmetric strategies have become one of the most disruptive forces in international...
China-Taiwan-Japan Dynamics Puts Pressure on Trump’s G2 Gambit
Amid heightened Japan-China tensions, US President Donald Trump spoke by telephone with Chinese President Xi Jinping. While Trump termed it a positive development, stating...