A federal judge has blocked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis from classifying a prominent Muslim civil rights organization as a terrorist group, ruling that the order violated constitutional protections for ...
The generational shift that the Ninth Party Congress signaled is noticeable: Kim’s old mentors and advisors inside the regime have stepped aside – whether willingly or not – to make room for his allie...
The official primetime news broadcast of China’s state broadcaster essentially act as a mouthpiece for the Iranian regime, while packaging their narrative in language tailored to Beijing’s strategic a...
With growing trade volumes, infrastructure initiatives, and initial geological explorations in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan is testing whether economic interdependence and proximity can function as a subst...
After raining thousands of bombs on Iran, the United States and Israel are outsourcing the task of overthrowing the government to civilians who are unarmed and otherwise ill-equipped to take on the he...
If the Strait of Hormuz remains threatened and constrained by the war on Iran, Asia will face its most serious test of energy security since the 1973 oil embargo. For decades, policymakers understood ...
In 1953, the US and the UK staged a coup in Iran that deposed Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, the first democratically elected leader of a major Muslim country. The intervention, staged to regain c...
The US-Israel attack on Iran has redrawn the Middle East’s map, and India has already managed to lose. For decades, New Delhi cultivated a “reputation” for its so-called “strategic autonomy”, ma...
In its decision rejecting President Donald J. Trump’s tariffs, the US Supreme Court reined in a particularly glaring abuse of presidential emergency powers. One thing it didn’t do is quest...
There is an old joke. Why does the Italian Navy have glass bottomed boats? Answer: So they can see the previous Italian Navy. It is looking like the joke can be redirected, although it will be some ti...
The United States government recently hosted a critical minerals summit aimed at reducing China’s predominant role in the global production of smartphones, weapons systems, lithium-ion batteries and e...
TOKYO – The panic sweeping through South Korea’s trading floors this week amid fast-developing fallout from war in the Middle East might not be as isolated as many investors hope. On Tuesday and Wedne...
There’s a tempting logic to the analogy. The Trump administration orchestrated the dramatic removal of Nicolas Maduro in January — a swift, tactically audacious operation that produced an oil deal, a ...
The escalating conflict in Iran and the Gulf region has exposed a structural reality: geography remains the ultimate arbiter of market stability. Nowhere is this more acute than the Strait of Hormuz, ...
It’s too soon to tell, as the fight with Iran started less than a week ago. But at least in the near-term, China will likely hold its fire on Taiwan. However, if the Iran conflict continues for an ext...