Among the many aims of the October 8 ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, flooding Gaza with humanitarian assistance ought to be one of the most achievable. According to U.S. President Donald ...

Indeed, this week Trump acknowledged to reporters that Taiwan is likely to come up in talks with Xi. Chinese leaders have made no secret of their desire to assert control over Taiwan, by force if ...

European leaders have grand ambitions to reduce the continent’s reliance on sensitive technologies from abroad. Today, they are debating an update to the European Chips Act, which was finalized in ...

On October 28, 2024, a group of South Korean intelligence officials briefed NATO members and the alliance’s three other Indo-Pacific partners—Australia, Japan, and New Zealand—on a shocking ...

Xi’s China is either a formidable competitor with the intent, resources, and technological prowess to surpass the United States or an economic basket case on the verge of implosion. Depending on whom ...

She worked at Russia’s central bank until early 2022. To sustain its war against Ukraine, Russia militarized its economy. Although—contrary to popular belief abroad—the Russian economy is not on a ...

When he reentered the White House in January, President Donald Trump insisted that protecting free speech was one of his key missions. On his first day back in office, he signed an executive order ...

But much of China’s historical evolution continues to defy Western understanding, and many of its leaders remain tantalizing conundrums—few more so than Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the ...

All the while, Soldatov and Borogan took note, as if marking notches in the wall—“that year, two of our friends had moved to the other side.” Before long, Izvestia’s short-lived period of relative ...

ZEID RA’AD AL-HUSSEIN is President of the International Peace Institute and a member of The Elders. He was UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2014 to 2018 and before that served as Jordan’s ...

She served as the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from 2021 to 2025. In November 1988, the Morris worm—an experimental ...