China’s ties with Iran are based on utility – and if the costs rise too high, Beijing could set Tehran aside. China’s Ambassador to the United Nations Fu Cong abstains during a Security Council vote ...

Only sustained, coordinated regional pressure can bring down the Iranian regime and end the turbulence it foments across the Middle East. New oil and gas pipelines designed to bypass the Strait of ...

Prediction markets increasingly outperform traditional forecasting by monetizing collective intelligence amid declining institutional trust. March 20, 2026: New York-based and Panama domiciled ...

United States President Donald Trump’s May 2026 visit to Beijing was neither a diplomatic triumph nor a clean end to the trade war his first administration launched nearly a decade ago. Instead, it ...

Mineral-producing nations are turning the shortcomings of the G7 and BRICS into bargaining power. Bundles of copper on rail wagons at the New Kapiri Mposhi train station in Kapiri Mposhi, Zambia. The ...

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This is the third installment in a GIS series on spacepower. Read about great power competition and China’s orbital ambitions. Grand strategy works by keeping a state’s political purpose aligned with ...

Mali’s escalating crisis reveals how state failure, insurgency and resource competition increasingly intertwine. On May 21, 2026, the Stimson Center in Washington, D.C., hosted a panel entitled “A ...

U.S. impatience with NATO burden-sharing and its pivot to the Indo-Pacific is driving NATO 3.0. June 10, 2026, Pabrade, Lithuania: German soldiers prepare for Freedom Shield 2026, the inaugural ...

Russia could well test NATO by attacking Lithuania, but Vilnius is better prepared than most. A Lithuanian state border guard stands on patrol near Belarus on June 21, 2021 near Poskonys, Lithuania.

Oil and gas have long powered Algeria’s stability. President Tebboune’s New Algeria seeks bold diversification, but success may remain elusive. Feb. 1, 2026, Bechar, Algeria: Algerian President ...

The run-up to every NATO summit is tense, if not nerve-wracking – and this year’s summit in Ankara on July 7-8 is no exception. Allied heads of state and government are preparing to meet in the ...