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US Gulf Defense Deals Aim to Curb China’s Middle East Expansion
The appointment of Iranian Parliament Speaker Qalibaf as special envoy for Chinese affairs is directly linked to the failure of US President Donald Trump's...
China, Iran, UAE: Barakah Reactor Threat Analysis
Chinese intelligence and military agencies consider Iran's targeting of the UAE's Barakah nuclear reactor after the Beijing summit to be a multi-faceted Iranian deterrent...
The Beijing Tactical Pause: Moving from Diplomatic Resolution to Crisis Management
Observers must look past the formal diplomatic events of the recent meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Beijing. The event forced global...
Strategic Ambiguity Is Becoming the Gulf’s New Deterrence Doctrine
In the Gulf, the most important signals are increasingly the ones no actor fully confirms.
For decades, Gulf security rested on a relatively clear deterrence...
The Interwar Trap Returns: What 1919-1939 Europe Teaches the U.S., Japan, and South Korea Today
In contemporary debates on the Indo-Pacific, decision-makers sometimes invoke the lessons of the 1930s—mostly as a warning against “appeasement.” However, such a frame is...
US Delegation Dumped Chinese Gifts Before Trump Flight Reflects the Deep US-China Distrust
The US delegation's disposal of Chinese gifts by throwing them in the trash represents a strict security and protocol measure reflecting the deep distrust...
Why Putin Visited China 48 Hours After Trump’s China Trip
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing, the Chinese capital, for a two-day official visit on May 19 and 20, 2026, just 48 hours...
Turning the Tide at the G7 – School Meals for a Hungry World
These are dark days for international development. The UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with their promise of a world free of extreme poverty...
The Aesthetics of Impunity: Legal Backsliding of Gender in Türkiye
In early 2026, the discovery of Durdona Khakimova and Ergashalieva Sayyora—two Uzbek women murdered and disposed of in trash containers in Istanbul—sent a chilling...
A Rising China, an Established America, and the Thucydides Trap
When the ancient Greek historian Thucydides chronicled the Peloponnesian War, he did not write only about the clash between Athens and Sparta. He documented...