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Ukraine-Russia military conflict is also a culture war

BERKELEY/KYIV – When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, few expected resistance to last longer than a few days....

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Yuriy Gorodnichenko

How Hong Kong is faring three years after China’s crackdown

Three years after China imposed a wide-ranging national security law on Hong Kong, the city looks like it has returned to normality, with its...

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Frank Ching

China should heed the concerns of its neighbors

This past weekend at the 20th annual Shangri-la Dialogue security forum in Singapore, China’s defense minister, Li Shangfu, argued that the lack...

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Stephen Nagy

The ups and downs of the Modi decade

NEW DELHI – Just recently, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government inaugurated a new parliament building in New Delhi. It was supposed...

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Shashi Tharoor

Russia’s dam-busting is another war crime

In a way, this says it all: Just as the Ukrainians are finally launching their long-expected counteroffensive against the Russian invaders, the...

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Andreas Kluth

AI alarmists are dragging us all down a rabbit hole

A funny thing happened during Sam Altman’s testimony before Congress recently. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said his “biggest nightmare” about AI was...

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Parmy Olson

Debt debacle confirms what many thought of the U.S.

“Beclowned.” That was a characterization made by Washington Post economics columnist Catherine Rampell when commenting on the U.S. debt limit...

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Brad Glosserman

China’s vision of an international order firmly in the shadows of the G7

At the Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima in May, leaders once again condemned in the strongest possible terms the war of aggression by Russia...

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Naoko Eto

Flight of affluent taxpayers catches up with New York

New York has been losing people to other states for a while. But something new happened during the pandemioc: The people who left had higher...

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Justin Fox

Saudi Arabia’s solo oil production cut is a risky strategy

For years, Saudi Arabia has vowed to intervene in the oil market only in concert with OPEC bigwigs — and rarely, if ever, alone. Call it the oil...

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Javier Blas

A Western distraction from climate action

ABU DHABI – It should be common knowledge by now that climate change is a complex problem with outsize consequences for the Global South. By...

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Ali Rashid Al Nuaimi

The existential question about Putin’s mercenary boss

Yevgeny Prigozhin shouldn’t have said “grandfather.” But it slipped out. That was last month, during one of his vulgar and lurid rants against...

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Andreas Kluth

China and India have fewer people than the U.N. thinks

MADISON, WISCONSIN – In April, the United Nations estimated that India had overtaken China as the world’s most populous country. While the...

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Yi Fuxian

Your first robot butler will need human eyes

I don’t know if you’ve heard, but the robots are coming. Tesla Inc. has one with opposable thumbs called Optimus, and other startups like...

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Parmy Olson

U.S. allies look for their place in the emerging global order

From May 22–23, the Toda Peace Institute convened a brainstorming retreat at its Tokyo office with 16 high-level international participants. One...

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Ramesh Thakur

Ukraine’s attacks on Russia are a calculated gamble

The May 30 drone attack on Moscow, with at least three unmanned aerial vehicles hitting apartment blocks, is the most dramatic evidence so far of a...

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Leonid Bershidsky

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