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Strategic Autonomy or Partnership? Europe’s Choice with South Korea

Europe’s ongoing rearmament has exposed a structural contradiction that exists at the very heart of its defense industrial strategy. Despite the surge of demand...

Why Armenia’s Best Bet Is Neutrality, Not Another Exclusive Alliance

Armenia’s best strategic option is not renewed dependence on Russia or a full alignment with the West, but a doctrine of credible neutrality backed...

Lebanon Is Burning While Iran and Israel Bargain

As the US-Iran ceasefire was declared April 8, Hezbollah made an unexpected move. It stopped shooting. The hiatus was several hours. Then Israel unleashed what...

The United States, China, Taiwan and the American Decline

Cheng Li-wun, chairwoman of Taiwan's main opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), visited China from April 7–12, 2026. Following a meeting with the Chinese President,...

Somalia’s Spoils System Has a New Variable

The warlords never left Somalia. They were given budgets, airports and constitutional titles. The rushed parliamentary vote in Baidoa on 28 March made that reality...

Islamabad Talks: Untangling the Washington-Tehran impasse

After six weeks of tit-for-tat strikes by Iran on the one side, and the United States, Israel and Arab sheikhdoms on the other, the...

Iran war fallout puts Sudan’s Burhan in a deeper bind

Sudan’s self-appointed leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan is finding that his co-dependent relationship with the country’s Islamist-Muslim Brotherhood elite is beginning to run interference on...

Five Brutal Truths the Iran War Exposed About Everyone

On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched nearly 900 strikes on Iran in 12 hours. The Supreme Leader was dead by...

The Two Triads: An Emerging Post-American Middle East

Sometime in the past twelve months, the Middle East's security architecture quietly stopped revolving around the United States. The shift has no single point...

What the US-Israel War on Iran Means for the Long Term

The recent US-Israel attacks on Iran has triggered an avalanche of analysis by a range of different specialists on the many media platforms that...

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Beijing’s Two-Track Money Play: A Stronger Yuan for Washington, a Harder Line on Belt and Road Debt

Today's Numbers $126.4bn (China's record H1 2026 Belt and Road...

Xi to Press Trump to Halt Taiwan Arms Sales in 1982 Agreement Push

China's President Xi Jinping is expected to urge US...

Iran-US Talks May Resume as Trump and Pezeshkian Head to UN

On Tuesday, Iran and the United States signaled the...

Can Iran Reopen the Strait of Hormuz Through Diplomacy?

Iran has offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz...
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