Emerging Risks

A new list of Black Swan events is lurking everywhere: from war between China and Taiwan, to revolution in Iran, and a global recession. Managing them is a high wire act in which we are a shock away from a fall, writes Stan Grant.

According to available information, Royal Navy representatives took part in planning and implementation of a terrorist act in the Baltic Sea, Russia's MoD said.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine highlights the "acute threats" posed by Moscow, but China is the most consequential challenge for the United States, the US military said in a statement of its overall strategy…

Global warming, war and inflation: The world seems to be in a perpetual state of crisis at the moment. In an interview, crash prophet Nouriel Roubini identifies 10 "megathreats" we are facing and how he is dealing with them.

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Can the international community see through the fog of its current crises and adequately prepare for an even bigger crisis further down the road?

Ancient creatures are emerging from the cold storage of melting permafrost, almost like something out of a horror movie.

A senior official from Russia's Foreign Ministry has warned that Western commercial satellites could become legitimate targets for Moscow if they were involved in the war in Ukraine.

Mark Clifford weighs in on pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai being found guilty of fraud by a Hong Kong court and Xi Jinping's tight control of the CCP.

In 1974, the BBC aired a 13-part television series titled The Fall of Eagles, which told the story of the decline and fall of three European empires--Romanov (Russia), Hapsburg (Austria-Hungary), and

China will challenge Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic region sooner than Chief of the Defence Staff General Wayne ...

The U.S. faces a window of strategic vulnerability unlike any it has experienced in the past two generations.

The military services most critical to deterring and/or defeating China don't exhibit much concern about the looming danger.

Leaders on all sides are pursuing policies inexorably driving us towards nuclear war. They must step back. Now.

The age of Arctic exceptionalism is gone: the high north region is no longer a protected sphere of Russia-West engagement and dialogue. The decision in March by Arctic Council states […]

The Russian president's resort to partial mobilization suggests that he’s more afraid of regime hardliners than his own public.

East European governments are starting to distribute the tablets as a precaution, but there are limits to the protection they offer, and who might need them.

As Russia suffers losses in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin has made veiled threats to use nuclear weapons—a scenario that security experts still deem unlikely. WSJ looks at satellite images and documents to understand how the process of launching a strike would work. Photo composite: Eve Hartley More from the Wall Street Journal: Visit WSJ.com: http://www.wsj.com Visit the WSJ Video Center: https://wsj.com/video On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/wsj/videos/ On Twitter: https://twitter.com/WSJ On Snapchat: https://on.wsj.com/2ratjSM #Russia #NuclearWeapons #WSJ

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Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told his French counterpart in a telephone call on Sunday that the situation in Ukraine was rapidly deteriorating and trending towards "uncontrolled escalation". archived 23 Oct 2022 15:20:38 UTC

As the U.S. becomes more ideologically divided than ever, how do we avoid the vortex of political passion and blame?

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Economic stagnation, imploding real estate values, and continued COVID crackdowns likely will further fuel widespread anger in China.

COVID and overdose deaths have sharply cut U.S. life expectancy, with Indigenous peoples experiencing the biggest decline

In a nuclear war, hundreds to thousands of detonations would occur within minutes of each other, resulting in tens to hundreds of millions of people dead or injured in a few days. But a few years after a nuclear war, global climatic changes caused by the many nuclear explosions could be responsible for the death of more than half of the human population on Earth.

The U.S. and China are entering into a dangerous period where Beijing might temped to change the international order in Asia by force.

Senior U.S. military officials have worried in recent months that a Chinese military invasion of Taiwan could be just a few years away.

Given that an Israeli strike to prevent a nuclear Iran is probable, Israel and other states should prepare for a strong Iranian retaliation.