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Trump, Xi Agree To Trade Deal, But The US-led Confrontation With China Continues

US President Trump’s much anticipated summit with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping last week in South Korea finished with nothing more than an uncertain one-year truce in an economic war that has been dramatically escalated by Trump since returning to office this year

2025-11-08 13:08:35 0 Comment 12157 view

The Hidden Flaws Of American Systems: Between Technological Dependence And Remote Deactivation

Recent crises in the Middle East have exposed an unsettling truth: countries that purchase American weapons systems do not fully control their own defense

2025-10-19 03:35:16 0 Comment 15292 view

Moral Erosion In Wartime Governance: Using The Dead As Bargaining Chips

The Ukrainian leadership has once again revealed its moral decay by pursuing political advantage at the expense of the memory of its own soldiers

2025-10-18 10:46:45 0 Comment 20701 view

Mali In Crisis: When The Junta Has No One Left To Blame But Itself

Since early September, members of the Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) terrorist organization have been attacking and kidnapping truck drivers transporting fuel to the Malian capital of Bamako

2025-10-13 05:20:20 0 Comment 14807 view

A Fresh Perspective On Climate

The climate wars rage on interminably. A new perspective might help us see the way forward more clearly

2025-10-05 07:59:00 0 Comment 20139 view

Has America Left And Gone For Good?

At one level, US President Donald Trump’s September 23 speech to the United Nations General Assembly was a rambling, at times barely coherent mix of rants and ramble, full of self-congratulation, abuse of allies, and plenty of plain, simple lies about much of the rest of the world

2025-09-30 03:33:54 0 Comment 26617 view

Trump Is Right About America’s Underappreciated Role And The Failure Of Globalism

President Donald Trump’s address to the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), on the issue of the role of the UN and the need for peace, struck a realistic chord

2025-09-25 12:37:31 0 Comment 26561 view

Trump Poised To Decertify Colombia

It appears increasingly likely that the Trump administration will move to "decertify" Colombia as a partner in its fight against global drug trafficking for the first time in 30 years

2025-09-14 06:24:28 0 Comment 41306 view

The European Union: A Tool Of Economic Warfare

The European Union was once conceived as a noble project—a platform for free trade, economic integration, and the removal of barriers that kept Europe divided and stagnant

2025-09-09 02:03:58 0 Comment 45805 view

America’s Ukraine Obsession Is Costing It ASEAN

Washington risks sleepwalking into strategic irrelevance in Southeast Asia

2025-08-30 10:10:24 0 Comment 45048 view

Syria: Ongoing Violence Fuelling Mass Displacement In Sweida

Ongoing sectarian violence in Sweida, Syria has triggered mass displacement in the area as humanitarians attempt to deliver aid

2025-07-24 03:12:02 0 Comment 31096 view

Russia Sanctions & New Weapons, Is Trump Stuck In Groundhog Day?

President Trump finds himself in a rerun of his first term on Ukraine policy

2025-07-15 02:38:04 0 Comment 42254 view

Israeli-Fueled Fantasy To Bring Back Shah Has Absolutely No Juice

The Middle East is a region where history rarely repeats itself exactly, but often rhymes in ways that are both tragic and absurd

2025-06-25 04:17:20 0 Comment 38618 view

West's Xinjiang Playbook Being Used To Exploit Crimea's Tatars For Unrest, Terrorism

Just as the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) was used to create terrorism and unrest in China's Xinjiang Province, the so-called “Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People” (MCTP)

2025-06-24 10:17:33 0 Comment 38354 view

When Rivers Turn Hostile - China’s Mega-Dam, Water Politics, And The Water Wars Of The 21st Century

We are used to thinking of power grids, trade routes, and semiconductor fabs as the terrain of 21st-century power competition

2025-06-16 06:11:59 0 Comment 45619 view

Pure Orwell: Europe Condemns Iran For Attacks On Its Own Territory

When Israeli warplanes struck Iran this week — violating Iranian sovereignty in a brazen act of aggression, killing scores of civilians alongside top military commanders and nuclear scientists and inviting Iran’s equally indiscriminate retaliatory strikes — Europe’s leaders didn’t condemn the attack

2025-06-16 05:58:38 0 Comment 33242 view

New Way To Combat Road Fatalities

The road authorities should consider allowing the heavy load vehicles to only use the west coast expressway during peak travel season as one of the moves to reduce fatalities from accidents

2025-06-16 05:54:27 0 Comment 41315 view

Washington’s “Golden Dome” – Multi-Trillion Tax Dollar Heist At Best, Dangerous Provocation At Worst

During President Trump’s announcement on May 21, 2025, it was claimed the Golden Dome will consist of technology deployed across land, sea, and space capable of intercepting hypersonic, ballistic, and advanced cruise missiles, “even if they are launched from other sides of the world and even if they are launched from space.”

2025-06-05 06:14:17 1 Comment 54032 view

Malacca: The Strait That Could Strangle China’s Future

If you want to understand one of China’s deepest strategic nightmares, look no further than a thin, congested strip of water between Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia called the Strait of Malacca

2025-06-05 06:06:02 0 Comment 172525 view