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What Washington Now Wants From Its Allies
On 30 May 2026, speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told an audience of mostly Asian defense officials...
China’s military and intelligence views on Lebanon-Israel talks
China strongly condemns the Israeli airstrikes and ground incursion into southern Lebanon, describing these operations as a dangerous escalation that threatens the stability of...
U.S. military shoots down drones, strikes radar sites in Iran as ceasefire tested in Gulf
U. S. forces targeted Iranian coastal radar sites after shooting down drones launched by Iran, which were believed to threaten maritime traffic in the...
Why Trump’s Ceasefires Are Failing to End Middle East Violence
Residents in Gaza, southern Lebanon, northern Israel, and Kuwait faced ongoing violence this week, despite ceasefires arranged by the U. S. supposed to be...
Trump White House Ballroom Case Tests Limits of Presidential Power
A legal battle over President Donald Trump's plan to construct a $400 million ballroom on the site of the demolished East Wing of the...
Trump’s Expletive Outburst Exposes Strains With Netanyahu Amid Middle East War
A leaked and later partially confirmed phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has exposed unusually public tensions...
Trump Tariff Plan on Forced Labor Faces Doubts Over Effectiveness
The Trump administration has proposed imposing additional tariffs of 10% to 12.5% on imports from 60 countries that it says have failed to take...
Global Stocks Slide as AI Rally Fades and US Iran Peace Talks Stall
Global financial markets retreated sharply after two major drivers of investor sentiment shifted simultaneously. First, concerns emerged about whether the artificial intelligence boom that...
Is Japan Actually Breaking Free From the US-China Trap in 2026?
The conventional read of Japan's foreign policy in 2026 is that Tokyo is hedging: carefully managing relationships on multiple fronts in response to an...
Thucydides Trap: Is it still relevant today?Â
For decades, geopolitical scholars have been concerned about a potential hot war between China (the "rising" power) and the US (the "ruling" power) because...