Ukraine Crisis: Will China Have Putin’s Back?

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​national interest​​​ by Graham Allison Xi Jinping’s inner circle had a vigorous debate last week about the advantages and disadvantages for China of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. Their discussion →

Iran Blames the United States For Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

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​national interest​​​ by Trevor Filseth While the Iranian government has announced its opposition to the war in Ukraine, it has refused to denounce Russia’s invasion and has blamed the situation on →

Russia ‘ready to talk’ after militarily paralyzing Ukraine in hours

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​global times​​​ by Chen Qingqing, Wang Wenwen and Cui Fandi As some local residents began fleeing Kiev early Thursday morning and rushing west while air raid sirens sounded in the Ukrainian capital, →

Will Putin’s War Go Further Than Ukraine?

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​national interest​​​ by Jacob Heilbrunn In 1946, Walter Bedell “Beetle” Smith, who was the new ambassador to the Soviet Union, left Spaso House late at night to meet with Generalissimo Josef Stalin →

The Ukrainian Pivot: Why NATO Is More Crucial Than Ever

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national interest by Robert D. Kaplan The crisis in Ukraine has put the world back into the groove of history established in August 1914. World War I featured massive land battles between Germany and →

Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation in the Ukraine

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This morning, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the Russians and announced that he had decided on a special military operation in the Ukraine. "The circumstances require us to act →

Shrinking smartly: How Estonia can manage its falling population

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​emerging europe​​​ by Craig Turp-Balazs Estonia’s population, 1.33 million in 2020, has shrunk by 15 per cent since 1991, and all available projections indicate that this trend will continue. →

Why Italy Belongs in the Transatlantic ‘Quad’

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​national interest​​​ by Dario Cristiani On the margins of the NATO Defense Ministerial, the Defense Ministries of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany met for an informal →

Cryptocurrency Is a Cash Cow for Far-Right Extremists

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​national interest​​​ by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Varsha Koduvayur Canada’s Freedom Convoy protesters are increasingly turning to cryptocurrency donations for support after crowdfunding site GoFundMe →

Putin’s Special Ops Mindset: What Next for Russia and Ukraine?

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​carnegie​​​ The recognition of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics is a chance for Russia to climb down from the peak of escalation with a concrete result, because retreating →

China’s No.1 central document focuses on food security, rural vitalization

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​global times​​​ China has vowed to ensure food security by holding the people's rice bowl firmly in its own hands, and to prevent rural residents who have been lifted out of absolute poverty from →

China vows to take countermeasures against Raytheon, Lockheed Martin for US’ arms sale plan to Taiwan

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global times China decided to take countermeasures against Raytheon and Lockheed Martin after the two US defense firms acted as the main contractors in the latest US arms sale to the island of →

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