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How the U.S. Security Assistance Distorts Israel’s Domestic Market
While the United States pours billions of dollars in annual aid into Israel, such generosity is quietly undermining Israel’s economic autonomy. For decades, mainstream...
How China Courts the Global South to Counter U.S. Alliances
China's strategy to counter Western alliances, such as: (Aukus, Quad, comprising: the United States, Japan, Australia, and India”, and NATO), relies on a combination...
What Would Okamoto Say? Advice for Prime Minister Takaichi on Japan’s China Crisis
Yukio Okamoto died in April 2020, before he could witness Japan's most serious diplomatic crisis with China in decades. But had the veteran diplomat,...
Trump Can’t Bomb What He Already Destroyed: The Iran Contradiction
Seven months ago, President Donald Trump announced that U.S. strikes had "completely and totally obliterated" Iran's nuclear facilities. This week, he's threatening to strike...
Putin Seeks to Bolster Russia–Arab Strategic Ties in Kremlin Talks
Russian President Vladimir Putin has held diplomatic talks, aimed at strengthening strategic relations with countries in the Arab world, in the Kremlin in the...
China’s Maritime Shield: Naval Power and the Defense of the Belt and Road
The proposed Ben Gurion Canal (connecting the Israeli port of Eilat to Mediterranean ports) poses a challenge to China's Belt and Road Initiative. Therefore,...
The Great Abdication: How America’s Retreat Is Ceding the Global South to Its Rivals
The End of an Era for American Influence
The signing of the “Rescissions Act of 2025” on July 24, 2025, is a major milestone in...
The “Rules Based International Order” is Crumbling: Should We Mourn Its End?
On January 20, 2025, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a speech at the annual WEF meeting in Davos. Immediately, a chorus of praise...
The army that Europe was talked out of
The idea of a pan-European army has always hovered over the continent like a half-remembered dream, something glimpsed between wars and summits and then...
Why the Tiananmen Square Tactics Will Backfire Against Iran
The late 2025 to early 2026 Iranian protests are seen as the culmination of decades of negligence, mismanagement, and brutal repression by the ruling...