Defence Minister Peter Dutton has warned war between China and Australia would be “devastating” as he described the communist superpower as an existential threat to the region.

Chinas unprecedented nuclear weapons build up has raised the risk of war with the US and provided the Peoples Liberation Army with the confidence to invade Taiwan, according to a new report by an influential US Congressional commission.

In the stretch of Europe from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, where Moscow and the West have competed for influence for decades, the threat of a new military conflict is growing.

China is expanding its nuclear arsenal, a move that might lead China to take more risks with its conventional forces.

A top Pentagon official recently warned China could soon become capable of launching a "surprise" nuclear attack against the United States.

Calls grow for a global planetary defense strategy as thousands of near-Earth asteroids are discovered each year.

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The Thucydides Trap states that when a rising power meets a waning one, war becomes inevitable. But China-US relations are more complicated than a simple power battle, writes Stan Grant.

Experts discuss with Newsweek what would happen next if China invades Taiwan.

A new book argues that the media’s moral panic about race has distracted Americans from the chasm of class.

Kevin Mandia says Iran has upped its hacking game and is "has gotten good at leapfrogging" U.S. cybersecurity in an asymmetric war the U.S. is poised to lose.

Iran’s military drone program has grown in recent years and Iran-backed groups have increasingly used drones in conflicts.

It's not enough to build a nuclear weapon, but Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium (HEU) has substantially exceeded the limitations agreed to under the 2015 Iran Deal.

NATO, the U.S. Government, and all other “neoconservatives” (adherents to Cecil Rhodes’s 1877 plan for a global U.S. empire that would be run, behind the scenes, by the UK’s aristocracy) have been treating Russia, China, and Iran, as being their enemies. In consequence of this: Russia, China, and Iran, have increasingly been coordinating their international […]

Monday’s summit between Xi and Biden addressed everything from trade to security and human rights, but resolved nothing.

Leaked Documents and Audio from the California Teachers Association Conference Reveal Efforts to Subvert Parents on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation

For as long as most of us have been alive, there have been declarations that America’s best days are behind us and that we are in a slow, steady decline. Against this backdrop, there is a growing…

The scientific and circumstantial evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic resulted from a lab accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology is close to dispositive.

The country is in the grip of the most concerted government campaign to assert greater control over its people in decades.

Talk of secession is on the rise among Americans—and already weakening the country.

As the United States talks more and more of defending Taiwan from an attack from the mainland, Taiwan’s military seems to be taking its defense

Most European leaders are disillusioned with Russia. But continuing divisions inside the EU over how to deal with the Kremlin prevent a coherent Russia strategy and play into the hands of Putin.

"The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power" explores the brewing cyberwar between Western democracies and autocracies.

There is only one logical endpoint to the war on human suffering.

Another “Western” idea takes hold, despite Beijing’s best efforts.

Gen. John Hyten, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff spoke to CBS News on Tuesday.

The weaponization of migrants shows how gray-zone tactics flummox an alliance set up to deal with conventional or nuclear attacks.

Iranian government-sponsored hackers are actively targeting a "broad range of victims" across multiple US sectors, including transportation and health care, and in some cases are deploying ransomware against those victims, US federal agencies and their counterparts from the United Kingdom and Australia warned on Wednesday.

UN atomic watchdog also denies its cameras had a role in June attack on Iranian centrifuge plant, which the Islamic Republic has blamed on Israel; IAEA chief set to visit Tehran