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The Russia-China-North Korea defense partnership
Understanding global geopolitics is complicated and challenging, especially today. Governments have complex relationships with each other at both the bilateral and multilateral levels. This...
Is China a Perennial Developing Country (As it Claims) or a Developed Country (As Others Assert)? It Matters
The answer depends on a combination of steadfast official Chinese pronouncements that hinge on self-identity and how “developing country status” is defined. The truth...
Linking Development with Migration: The Economics of Prevention
Some ideas are born in institutions. Others leave the institution with the people who first developed them. The idea of a diaspora hedge fund...
Xi Jinping and King Abdullah in Beijing: China’s Middle East Strategy, Gaza and the Iran War
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Jordanian King Abdullah II held official talks in Beijing on Monday, August 24, 2026, focusing on de-escalation in the...
Xi Jinping’s Art of Smart Dictatorship 3.0: Why China Rises as America Distracted?
In May 2026, at his own state banquet for Donald Trump in Beijing, Xi Jinping did something unusual for a leader who rarely improvises...
Understanding the CKU Railway: Kyrgyzstan Beyond the Debt Trap Narrative
The China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Railways has been in the spotlight recently. Many observers have highlighted the project, which connects trade routes from China (Kashgar) through Kyrgyzstan...
When International Institutions Cannot Stop States from Walking Away: The IWT and the Limits of International Law
The continuing proceedings under the Indus Waters Treaty have exposed an uncomfortable contradiction at the heart of the international system: international institutions can create...
Washington’s Divisions Over the Iran War: Victory or Exit?
The Iran war has entered a stage for Washington in which deciding how to end it may prove more difficult than deciding how to...
Canadians March off to fight a Trade War while Europe Watches
Authors: Raymond James Floreani and Julian Spencer Churchill PhD
Friday, August 21st, 2026, is a day that will certainly be etched into the minds of...
When Censorship Becomes Law: The Taliban’s Transformation of Information Control
From Media Restrictions to a Legal Architecture of Silence
The most consequential development in Afghanistan's information environment may no longer be the individual restrictions imposed...