Emerging Risks

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.

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

Semi-official Tasnim news agency says the incident is due to outdated infrastructure

Suppression of speech and political activity from the usual sources

Can an American-Led coalition prevent the next war?

Russian President Vladimir Putin's next move is being watched closely by experts.

Beijing's buildup is adding to a dangerous arms race across the Indo-Pacific. It is a setback for nuclear nonproliferation, which was already backsliding this decade, experts say, and raises the risks of conflict.

EUROPE is bracing itself for an energy crisis this winter after approval for Russia’s controversial gas pipeline into Germany was suspended by regulators.

During visit to massive military drill, PM voices concerns over international community going soft on Tehran's violations, reiterates that 'Israel will defend itself, by itself'

'Iran right now does not prefer war, and it feels inferior' militarily, the expert says - Click the link for more details.

On Nov. 1, three Algerian citizens were killed in the disputed territory of Western Sahara. The Algerian presidency issued a statement accusing Morocco of carrying out an attack with a “sophisticated weapon” on two Algerian transport convoys. This was only the latest episode in a process of escalation between the two countries. The Algerian authorities had previously cut their diplomatic relations with Morocco on Oct. 24 due to rising tensions. Even though the relationship between Algiers and Rabat has long been contentious, the death of three Algerian citizens could prove to be a turning point.

A Ronald Reagan Institute task force says the government needs to spend more on job training and manufacturing infrastructure.

A Russian satellite broke up in low Earth orbit in a deliberate test of a Russian anti-satellite device that created thousands of pieces of debris.

“Israel stands at a crossroads,” says long-serving former senior minister Tzahi Hanegbi. “We have no more than three, four, five

Sky News host Peter Stefanovic has spoken to Paul Murray about his upcoming documentary ‘China Rising’. “This is the story of our time. China is the story of our time,” Mr Stefanovic said. “It influences so many nations around the world.” Sky News anchor and investigative journalist Peter Stefanovic presents a landmark two-part documentary China Rising on Tuesday November 16 and Wednesday 17 November at 8pm AEDT.

Australia needs to be prepared – because China is certainly "preparing for something", says ‘China Rising’ host Peter Stefanovic. Mr Stefanovic discussed his documentary, 'China Rising', with Sky News host Chris Kenny – who told him the timing of the documentary's release could not have been more "apt". "China has always been at the top of the news agenda for one reason or another," Mr Stefanovic said. "But now that you've got these comments that have come from Paul Keating, you've got meetings that are going to take place over in the United States at the moment too between Xi and Biden and everything else. "Everything that's going on at the moment in China seems to be a top story wherever we go."

If the 20th century was the story of slow, uneven progress toward the victory of liberal democracy over other ideologies—communism, fascism, virulent nationalism—the 21st century is, so far, a story of the reverse.