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Hegemony, Sovereignty, and the Price of the American Guarantee
The American attempt to end the war with Iran on its own terms has also been an attempt to rearrange the region around it....
Getting the Story Right: A Response on the Detention of Min Zin
On June 3, 2026, an American scholar of Myanmar was detained at Kunming Airport. Nine days later, China's Foreign Ministry confirmed he was under...
The New AI Geopolitics: Governance, Power, and Technological Nationalism
Abstract: This article explores the rising convergence of national security considerations and global proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, especially focusing on the geopolitical...
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...