Emerging Risks

Emerging Risks

China’s Closing Window: Strategic Compression and the Risk of Crisis - Foreign Policy Research Institute
China’s Closing Window: Strategic Compression and the Risk of Crisis - Foreign Policy Research Institute
For China, compression arises from converging demographic decline, economic stagnation, and political rigidity. These forces produce a closing window in which Beijing perceives a diminishing opportunity to achieve its central project: the “national rejuvenation” with the main marker of absorbing Taiwan.
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China’s Closing Window: Strategic Compression and the Risk of Crisis - Foreign Policy Research Institute
A Global Weimar? | Grok / X
A Global Weimar? | Grok / X

Robert Kaplan’s latest book describes a world breaking on lines both old and new.

·x.com·
A Global Weimar? | Grok / X
Putin Is Losing the Ukraine War: Escalation Is Coming
Putin Is Losing the Ukraine War: Escalation Is Coming
Key Points and Summary – Vladimir Putin is losing the war in Ukraine; the West must prepare for escalation. Russia’s recent summer offensive failed militarily, resulting in massive casualties for little gain. -More critically, Ukraine’s long-range drone strikes are crippling Russia’s economy by taking a huge portion of its oil refining capacity offline, leading to […]
·nationalsecurityjournal.org·
Putin Is Losing the Ukraine War: Escalation Is Coming
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Key Points from "China’s Closing Window: Strategic Compression and the Risk of Crisis" by Ryan Agee
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China’s Closing Window: Strategic Compression and the Risk of Crisis
China’s Closing Window: Strategic Compression and the Risk of Crisis
When Beijing dispatched a relatively unknown rear admiral from its National Defense University to the 2025 Shangri-La Dialogue, bypassing its own defense minister and forfeiting its plenary address, i
·realcleardefense.com·
China’s Closing Window: Strategic Compression and the Risk of Crisis
5 Ways a U.S.-China War Could Breakout In 2025
5 Ways a U.S.-China War Could Breakout In 2025
Key Points and Summary – A U.S.–China war would likely begin not with a declaration, but with a chain of miscalculations. -Five flashpoints stand out: a South China Sea confrontation that spirals; a Taiwan crisis that jumps from coercion to blockade or strikes; a clash around Japan’s Senkaku Islands; an unsafe aerial intercept that echoes […]
·nationalsecurityjournal.org·
5 Ways a U.S.-China War Could Breakout In 2025
Iran’s Revolutionary War on America’s Homeland
Iran’s Revolutionary War on America’s Homeland
Have we arrived at a turning point in America, where our foreign and domestic threats have converged? It appears that Tehran has spun an intricate strategy to threaten the homeland, Americans as well
·realcleardefense.com·
Iran’s Revolutionary War on America’s Homeland
A new era of nuclear weapons is here
A new era of nuclear weapons is here
The world is moving into a more dangerous age. According to the Peace Research Institute Oslo, last year set a grim record, namely the highest number of state-based armed conflicts in more than seven decades. At the same time, we are seeing a fundamental realignment of global geopolitics – made clear from the recent meeting
·spectator.co.uk·
A new era of nuclear weapons is here
5 Places World War III Could Start Right Now
5 Places World War III Could Start Right Now
Key Points and Summary – If World War III starts in 2025, odds are it begins in one of five places: the Taiwan Strait, NATO’s eastern front, the Israel–Iran theater, the Korean Peninsula, or the India–China Himalayas. -Each flashpoint has its own fuse—unfinished wars, shifting deterrence, or alliance commitments that could drag in great powers […]
·nationalsecurityjournal.org·
5 Places World War III Could Start Right Now
American decline: Depopulation is possible — and could cause a crisis
American decline: Depopulation is possible — and could cause a crisis
Depopulation — unremitting, long-term population decline — promises to be the 21st century’s most important demographic trend. After centuries of seemingly unstoppable increase, world...
·nypost.com·
American decline: Depopulation is possible — and could cause a crisis
Poland Is Slowly Preparing for the Unthinkable: War with Russia
Poland Is Slowly Preparing for the Unthinkable: War with Russia
Key Points and Summary – Russia’s latest barrage sent more than 20 drones into Polish airspace, the first hostile act against a NATO member, and it triggered an immediate response in Poland. -Thousands have volunteered for military training as Warsaw rolls out an Israeli-style ready-reserve plan aimed at 500,000 trained citizens. -Prime Minister Donald Tusk […]
·nationalsecurityjournal.org·
Poland Is Slowly Preparing for the Unthinkable: War with Russia
Russia Is at War with the West
Russia Is at War with the West
Michaela Dodge, Russia Is at War with the West, No. 636, September 11, 2025 Download PDF Russia Is at War with the West Dr. Michaela DodgeDr. Michaela Dodge is a Research Scholar at the N
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Russia Is at War with the West