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No Rear Area Left: How the Houthis Took the War Beyond Yemen
A drone strike on a Madinah power station did little physical damage. It confirmed something more consequential: the Houthi threat is no longer a...
Why the Road Back to US-Iran Talks Still Runs Through Islamabad?
The June framework has become the shared vocabulary of the US-Iran conflict. Turning a reference point back into a process is a harder task,...
Greenland Can Choose Independence, But Can It Choose What Comes After?
The Greenland crisis appears to have ended with signatures rather than confrontation. On September 22, 2026, the United States, Denmark and Greenland signed a...
Indonesia’s Rising Digital Power: From Market Influence to Global Coordination
In June 2026, Indonesia's Deputy Minister of Communications and Digital Nezar Patria put Indonesia's share of ASEAN's digital economy at around 40 percent, a figure...
Why Chinese Studies in Egypt and the Middle East Matter to the Global South
Chinese Studies (Sinology) has undergone a radical transformation in recent years, no longer limited to the study of history and classical language but evolving...
After Trump’s Greenland Deal, Denmark Faces a New Arctic Test
As the world’s leaders gather for the 81st UN General Assembly, the ink is just starting to dry on the “amended and supplemented” agreement...
The Next AI Crisis May Begin With the Wrong Suspect
Earlier this year, while the war with Iran was still under way, the US military came close to boarding a Chinese vessel transiting the...
Morocco’s Fatima El Mansouri and the New China-Morocco Agenda for Women’s Empowerment
The All-China Women's Federation (ACWF), as the highest Chinese women's organization concerned with the issues of women in China and around the world, and...
Small-State Diplomacy in an Era of Geopolitical Fragmentation
At a time when international diplomacy is under extraordinary pressure, the proposed Muscat Process—advanced by a Group of Friends of the Process—deserves strong and...
Russia’s Sanctions Resilience Has a Ceiling: The Structural Limits Behind Moscow’s Adaptation
Sanctions are designed to impose economic costs that eventually generate political pressure for behavioral change. Yet Russia has absorbed years of unprecedented economic restrictions...