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BERKELEY/KYIV – When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, few expected resistance to last longer than a few days....
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...
This past weekend at the 20th annual Shangri-la Dialogue security forum in Singapore, China’s defense minister, Li Shangfu, argued that the lack...
NEW DELHI – Just recently, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government inaugurated a new parliament building in New Delhi. It was supposed...
In a way, this says it all: Just as the Ukrainians are finally launching their long-expected counteroffensive against the Russian invaders, the...
A funny thing happened during Sam Altman’s testimony before Congress recently. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said his “biggest nightmare” about AI was...
“Beclowned.” That was a characterization made by Washington Post economics columnist Catherine Rampell when commenting on the U.S. debt limit...
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...
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...
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...
ABU DHABI – It should be common knowledge by now that climate change is a complex problem with outsize consequences for the Global South. By...
Yevgeny Prigozhin shouldn’t have said “grandfather.” But it slipped out. That was last month, during one of his vulgar and lurid rants against...
MADISON, WISCONSIN – In April, the United Nations estimated that India had overtaken China as the world’s most populous country. While the...
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...
From May 22–23, the Toda Peace Institute convened a brainstorming retreat at its Tokyo office with 16 high-level international participants. One...
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...