Forgotten History: Patriot Missiles Caused an American Civil War in Iraq

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ni Here's What You Need to Know: During the spring 2003 invasion of Iraq by U.S. and allied forces, U.S. Army Patriot air-defense missile batteries were so dangerously unreliable—and prone to firing →

Rail Baltica faces uncertain future as Polish, Estonian concerns persist

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emerging europe Rail Baltica promised a high-speed-rail connection linking Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland by 2026. With several sections now under construction however, the ambitious project →

Can the Yuan Ever Replace the Dollar for Russia?

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carnegie Vita Spivak The Russian and Chinese leaders regularly discuss increasing the use of their national currencies in bilateral payments, most recently in a phone conversation at the end of June. →

Mexico holds national referendum on prosecuting ex-presidents

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gt On August 4, 2020, a fire at the Beirut port ignited one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history. It disfigured the city, took more than 200 lives and shattered Lebanon's psyche. The →

Killing Tehran: How Israel Tried Everything to Stop Iran’s Nuclear Program

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ni by Sebastien Roblin Here's What You Need To Remember: It seems assassinations are condemned or praised not according to the methods used but depending on who is performing them. It remains to be →

US economic growth decelerates, made worse by decoupling from China

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gt The US government reported that its economy grew 6.5 percent on an annualized basis from April to June in 2021 - about two percentage points lower than what was forecast by most economists. →

Cut Social Security and Medicare Spending?

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ni by Stephen Silver Key Point: The last few years have been something of a golden age for government spending. Since the start of the pandemic, both the Trump and Biden administrations have passed →

Russia’s History Wars: Why Is Stalin’s Popularity On the Rise?

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carnegie Andrei Kolesnikov Stalin stands in for the lack of modern heroes, and overshadows all the most important historical events of the twentieth century, symbolically compensating for the →

England to allow unquarantined travelers from US and EU if jabbed

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gt People fully vaccinated in the US and European Union (EU) - except France - will be allowed to travel to England without having to quarantine on arrival, the UK government announced on Wednesday. →

Living in China’s technological miracle

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gt On July 1, China declared it had reached its first centenary development goal - building a moderately prosperous society, or xiaokang, in all respects and is marching confidently toward the second →

40th anniversary of Gezhouba Dam starts operating: the first large hydropower hub on Yangtze River shines with "high reliability, long life and zero defects"

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gt The Gezhouba Dam, the world's largest run-of-river hydropower station and the first large-scale water control project on the main artery of the Yangtze River, celebrated the 40th anniversary of →

South Korea: A Middle Power in the Making?

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ni by Andrei Lankov Is South Korea a middle power? This question might be difficult to answer—not least because the term ‘middle power’ is rather nebulous and poorly defined. However, there is little →

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