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Exploitation Lies Behind a Veil of Diplomacy in Iran
Behind a veil of good-natured diplomacy, American adversaries are exploiting the conflict in Iran by gaining insights, strategic lessons, and geopolitical power while the...
China’s Private Security Companies in the Middle East: Commercial Actors, Strategic Tools
Chinese PSCs are state-adjacent actors embedded in China’s overseas economic expansion, particularly under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), generating new arenas of US–China...
The War No One Talks About: What Modern Conflict Is Doing to Women and Girls
There is a particular cruelty to the way modern wars are fought. Not just in their scale or their duration, but in what they...
China’s Approach to Unrestricted Warfare: Strategy, Tactics, and Global Implications
The nature of warfare has changed dramatically in the 21st century. As per Baughman, advances in technology, cyber capabilities, economic interdependence, and information networks...
Beijing Hosts Global Human Rights Forum Amid Gaza and Iran War Fallout
The 2026 Global Human Rights Governance Forum was launched in Beijing, China, and ran for two days (June 11 and 12, 2026), coinciding with...
Xi’s North Korea Visit Fuels Kim’s Push for Trump Talks After Iran War
Chinese President Xi Jinping's historic two-day visit to North Korea (June 8-9, 2026) is linked to the ongoing conflict in their ally Iran and...
Chinese Intelligence Targets Organized Crime in Egypt
Chinese intelligence and security agencies view the crackdown on influence thuggery and the arrest of Sabry Nakhnoukh by Egyptian security forces in June 2026...
Who Is Min Zhen? US Scholar Detained in China Before Myanmar’s President Visit
On Friday, June 12, 2026, Chinese authorities officially announced the detention of American analyst Min Zhen, co-founder of the Institute for Strategy and Policy...
The Centrality of India-US Ties in Shaping Quad’s Future
With its recent Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Delhi, the Quad has again shown it remains active, defying widespread rumours of collapse.
While the Japanese and...
The Grassroots Secret of Chinese Manufacturing
The dramatic transformation of the global flange industry over the past two decades serves as a masterclass in the profound structural power of China’s...