Emerging Risks

In a recent column published by RIA Novosti, the deputy chairperson of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, writes that Russia’s relations with the United States have reverted back to a full “Cold War” (RIA Novosti, April 23). Medvedev served as Russia’s caretaker president from 2008 to 2012, holding the post while the country’s true ruler, Vladimir Putin, took the …

One of Australia’s most senior security officials has said liberal democracies must brace for war while searching for peace amid elevated global tensions.

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Cognoscenti Group Founder and CEO Dr Alan Dupont says the risk of war has considerably risen from 0.5 per cent to about 25 per cent on his own estimates, esp...

The persistent lack of response from the EU, NATO, or individual countries only convinces Russia it is free to carry out attacks across Europe with impunity.

Sky News host Andrew Bolt says "we have evidence that woke politics is making the west desperately weak" after New Zealand's Foreign Affairs Minister refused...

Residents in European nations expressed low confidence in the U.S. as a good example of a functioning democracy in the 2021 Best Countries survey.

Officials said that China’s push for global power posed a threat to the United States, and they dwelled on climate change, domestic extremism and more.

The national security threats that top intelligence officials laid out for lawmakers on Wednesday were dominated by China’s efforts to expand its global influence and "cascading crises" exacerbated by the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.

Although civilian control over the military is deeply embedded in the U.S. Constitution, it's currently under threat.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu desperately sees how the tough stance of the Trump administration against the nuclear deal with Iran has now morphed and changed into the Americans feeling their way back to the deal.

Experts predict that a tricky bomber maneuver—a wide encirclement of Taiwan—could be part of China’s strategy for softening up the island country’s defenses. That’s not just theory. The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force recently practiced the move.

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The U.S. Navy still has no idea who sent a swarm of drones to buzz warships off the coast of California in July 2019, or really even what kind of drones they were or what they were doing.

Decline is a relative term, but clearly by a preponderance of measures America is declining while China is ascending.

Beijing gains influence and helps Tehran evade U.S. sanctions.

The arrival of 4,000 Russian troops on the country’s border with Ukraine could trigger a European war, according to a military expert on the region. Pavel Felgenhauer’s warnings came as…

Special report: Britain's defence review identified two key adversaries - China and Russia. But both present very different challenges

Pyongyang steals $315m in virtual assets to fund weapons development

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The shutdown of the vital waterway and its impact on trade underscore the world’s reliance on global supply chains.

"Gunpowder" is one of those words Beijing uses when it wants others to know war is on its mind. The term is, more worryingly, also especially emotion-packed, a word Chinese propagandists use when they want to rile mainland Chinese audiences.... China's

Israel and Iran have fought a clandestine war across the Middle East for years, mainly by land and air. Now ships are under attack in the Mediterranean and Red Seas.

For years, Russian state-sponsored propaganda campaigns have undermined American science and technology. Now, they're putting lives at risk.

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There’s no proof that lockdowns save lives but plenty of evidence that they end them.

The Trump admin. tacitly supported the Israeli operations, the report said, and the US does not appear to be doing anything to prevent it.

Affluent parents, terrified of running afoul of the new orthodoxy in their children’s private schools, organize in secret.

If you are the president of the United States and you want to have a positive relationship with another country, it is probably not a good idea to call the leader of that other country a "killer" that "doesn't have a soul".  Also, it is probably not a good idea to accuse the other country of directl

Moscow announced, on March 17, that it is recalling “for consultations” its ambassador to Washington, Anatoly Antonov, after United States President Joseph Biden’s strong words against his Russian counterpart. In a pre-taped interview for ABC News, when asked by anchor George Stephanopoulos, “You know Vladimir Putin; do you think he’s a killer?” Biden replied, “Mmm hmm, I do,” before adding, …