US provocations over Taiwan question a minefield for China ties, encourage "once and for all" solution

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global times By Zhang Han US politics, polarized and increasingly radical, are a minefield for China-US relations with the Taiwan question becoming the most dangerous, Chinese observers warned on →

Davos more of a show, no longer so important

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modern diplomacy By by Marcela Ganea “Davos has become more of a show, it’s no longer so important”, concluded Liviu Muresan from Eurodefense Romania at the end of the webinar recently jointly →

Sergey Lavrov to Choose between Illusions and Reality for Africa

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​modern diplomacy​​​ By Kester Kenn Klomegah Late January, four African countries – South Africa, Eswatini, Angola and Eritrea – officially hosted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He went →

Bodycam footage of Tyre Nichols' violent arrest released by Memphis police

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​cbs news​​​ Officials in Memphis on Friday released police video from the violent arrest of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man whose death earlier this month has led to second-degree murder →

France, the U.S., and the Way Forward for West Africa

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national interest by Anthony J. Tokarz Suppose one were to plot out on a map the progress of two jihadist insurgencies in Africa: the Islamic insurgency in the Maghreb and the Boko Haram insurgency. →

Splits over support for Ukraine remain in Europe despite tank aid: analysts

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global times By Deng Xiaoci Splits within Europe, especially between the old one and the new one, over support for Ukraine are still evident, despite the development that the US and Germany announced →

US chips ban won't deter China from technological cooperation

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​global times​​​ In an interview with the Financial Times published on Thursday, Peter Wennink, chief executive officer of Netherlands-based chip equipment maker ASML, called on the Dutch government →

Islamophobia makes democracies less safe for everyone

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​al jazeera​​​ by Dalia Mogahed Earlier this week in the Hague, in an act that made America’s right-wing politicians look like paragons of religious tolerance, Edwin Wagensveid, the Dutch leader of →

Will Tanks Turn the Tide for Ukraine?

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foreign policy By Emma Ashford and Matthew Kroenig Germany and the United States are sending Leopards and M1 Abrams tanks—but Washington’s desired endgame is still a mystery. Matt Kroenig: Hi, Emma! →

Against ‘Buchananism’

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the american conservative by Declan Leary Patrick Buchanan has announced his retirement from his syndicated column. After three presidential runs, decades of column writing, dozens of books, and one →

The Need for the Digital Dollar

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national interest by Richard J. Harknett Igor Kovac “Every ten years, it is decline time in the United States,” wrote journalist Josef Joffe in 2009. Yet the story of U.S. decline has constantly →

Cooperation with NATO may lead India to public opinion backlash, greater losses of strategic autonomy

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​global times​​​ For NATO desiring to extend its tentacles into the Asia-Pacific region and India eager to obtain a bigger say in regional affairs, an increased interaction may be a relatively →

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