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Alla Hurska, Eurasia Daily Monitor
China has become Russia's primary economic partner in helping the Kremlin circumvent Western sanctions, with bilateral trade turnover reaching $225 billion...
Michael Cuenco, Compact
When the Soviet Union unraveled in 1992, statues of its founder, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, were torn from their foundations by the thousands and dumped in fields and...
David Butter, Chatham House
The Gaza war has exacted a devastating human toll, above all on the Palestinian civilian population of the territory. More than 25,000 Palestinians have been...
Peter Caddle, Brussels Signal
An expected loss of five seats within Von der Leyen's European People's Party could mean that the three parliamentary groups that support her...
Brett D. Schaefer, FOX News
On January 13, Taiwan's voters chose a new president and legislators. China pulled out all the stops to try to intimidate and entice voters into selecting its...
Al-Monitor
Avinash Paliwal, Foreign Affairs
Since a military coup in 2021 toppled Myanmar's democratic government, the country's army has found itself contending with a tenacious and committed rebel...
George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
I have written a great deal about socio-economic cycles but far less on institutional cycles, specifically how the fourth institutional cycle in...
Albertus Meintjes, Geopolitical Monitor
In previous years, the state of Somalia has evoked ideas of instability, piracy, and extremism. In 2023 however, the Somalian government headed by...
John Feffer, TomDispatch
It would be funny if it weren't so potentially tragic — and consequential. No, I'm not thinking about Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign but a related...
Louis Chahuneau, France24
France's farmers are angry with their government. Several dozen of them have been blocking a portion of the A64 highway near Toulouse since January 18 to express...
Sen. Todd Young, The Hill
"Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside."
Alexander Casella, Asia Times
For now, the world must cope with an America whose power exceeds its wisdom in an environment where chaos rules
Katja Hoyer, UnHerd
Talking about the EU has never been regarded as an election-winner in Germany. Until now. Ahead of the European polls later this year, the Right-wing Alternative für...
Nina Krushcheva, Project Syndicate
In the late eighteenth century, Catherine the Great planned a tour of Crimea, which her court favorite, Count Grigory Potemkin, had conquered a few years...
Sweet & Roth, The Messenger
President Biden's personal war with Saudi Arabian royalty has pushed the Kingdom further into the sphere of Chinese and Russian influence and closer to Iran....
Edward Luttwak, UnHerd
From the West to Saudi Arabia, its days of isolation are over
Rup Narayan Das, Taipei Times
The Democratic Progressive Party's unprecedented third consecutive presidential election victory and winning of 51 seats in the Legislative Yuan, against 52...
Damien Cave and Amy Chang Chien, NYT
The collection of American memorabilia, vast and well-lit in a busy area of City Hall in the southern Taiwanese city of Tainan, reflected decades of...
Walter Russell Mead, Wall Street Journal
Something unexpected happened at Davos this year. The conventional wisdom took some tentative steps toward the...
Gordon Chang, The Hill
"The situation on the Korean peninsula is more dangerous than it has been at any time since early June 1950," wrote noted North Korea researchers Robert Carlin and...
Riley Walters, Hudson Institute
William Lai (Lai Ching-te) and Bi-Khim Hsiao of Taiwan's Democratic People's Party (DPP) won the January 13 election and will be sworn in as president and...
