Emerging Risks

Wargaming Reveals How a U.S.-Chinese Conflict Might Escalate [into a Full-Blown Nuclear War]

The ties that bind the global economy together, and delivered goods in abundance across the world, are unravelling at a frightening pace.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida sees parallels between Russia's actions in Europe and China's expansion in the Indo-Pacific, a region stretching from America's Pacific coastline to the Indian Ocean.

In a Saturday op-ed, Mitt Romney cited warnings made by Russian ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Antonov that NATO is not taking Russia's nuclear threat seriously.

Beginning at the end of May, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will conduct a monthlong military drill simulating a wide scale strike on Iran.

Scientists are trying to understand why the virus, a less lethal relative of smallpox, has cropped up in so many populations around the world.

Alexei Fenenko, an associate professor at Moscow State University's school of world politics and a research fellow at the Institute of International Security Studies, made the incredible claim yesterday

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China expert and 'The Great U.S.-China Tech War' author Gordon Chang warns the real estate market is the 'heart of the Chinese economy.' #FOXBusinessSubscrib...

The world doesn’t move in cycles or with a grand design. Echoes of the 1970s remind us that one disaster often begets others.

Shortages of grain and fertiliser could cause ‘mass hunger and famine, says chief, as World Bank pledges $12bn to ease shortfall

Targeted cash and expertise are needed in the worst-hit areas, rather than sending food stocks

Two companies make up 75% of the US baby food market. The recent shortage is yet another example of how corporate consolidation in many US sectors has led to shortages and high prices.

Massive food producers hold too much power – and the regulators scarcely understand what is happening. Sound familiar, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Israeli military officials told Breaking Defense the US Air Force would provide refueling services for Israeli fighters during the exercise.

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The longer the Biden administration prolongs the war in Ukraine and the more it helps the Armed Forces of Ukraine achieve tactical victories on the battlefield, the higher the chances Putin will use

Unfortunately, the possibility of reaching a peaceful, diplomatic solution to the threats posed by Iran’s nuclear program looks remote.

Since Russia’s President Vladimir Putin launched his expanded invasion of Ukraine on February 24, fires at military bases and train accidents inside the Russian Federation have increased, military draft offices have been set aflame there, and draft resistance has spiked, as have cases in which soldiers in uniform are refusing to obey orders to deploy to Ukraine. Telephone bomb threats …

The long read: The horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki made the whole world afraid of the atomic bomb – even those who might launch one. Today that fear has mostly passed out of living memory, and with it we may have lost a crucial safeguard

Small, fast and nimble forces have helped Ukraine batter Russia, just like Green Beret forces did against the Taliban two decades ago.

Amid concern Iran is close to a nuclear weapon, “Chariots of Fire Drill,” will simulate war on six different fronts.

After the deadly airline crash of Continental 3407 in Buffalo, New York, FRONTLINE investigated the accident and discovered a dramatically changed airline in...

Russia has likely lost 30 percent of its ground combat forces in Ukraine, and their renewed offensive in the Donbas has lost momentum.

Defense Minister Benny Gantz warned on Tuesday that Iran is installing 1,000 advanced centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plants, and

Is it possible that Hezbollah may begin a new wave of assassinations if it fears critics against it are rising in Lebanon?

Number to have fallen ill reportedly at almost 1.5 million as country grapples with what it calls ‘fever’

Many in Europe say that they are just waking up to the threat posed by China. But if Europe is just waking up, it is still half-asleep.

And Are We Ready?

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