Emerging Risks

Some pundits and politicians argue that China as a rising power has peaked and that US power is in decline, making them both more insecure and dangerous. Woe to all of us if both ideas prove right.

The bloc needs to be ready for a crisis in relations with Beijing, even as we all hope it will never become a reality.

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The world is in the midst of one such decade. As with other historical hinges, the danger today stems from a sharp decline in world order. But more than at any other recent moment, that decline threatens to become especially steep, owing to a confluence of old and new threats that have begun to intersect at a moment the United States is ill positioned to contend with them.

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In my latest book, “The Storm Before the Calm,” I predicted that the U.S. would go through a massive social crisis in the 2020s. That prediction has

The current Russian and Chinese governments want Americans to be afraid to demand political progress from them.

After more than 6 months into the Ukraine war, President Putin has approved Russia’s new foreign policy doctrine. The 31-page "humanitarian policy" is primar...

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As the war in Ukraine has reminded us, we still live in the Atomic Age. Total annihilation is a permanent threat, as NUKEMAP shows.

A $1.1 billion package would “severely jeopardize” ties, Chinese officials say in demanding that Washington revoke the deal.

“Tang Ping” or Lying Flat, was a 2021 movement that rejected the work culture in China. Now, it has morphed into the more extreme “Bai Lan” or Let It Rot. Wh...

Gatestone Institute Senior Fellow Gordon Chang and former Defense Intelligence Agency officer Rebekah Koffler analyzes Russia and China’s growing alliance, o...

Civilian nuclear plants in war zones are becoming ticking radiological bombs.

The Russian mindset is characterized by cynicism and distrust. This is what led to Putin's great miscalculation: the invasion of Ukraine.

Gatestone Institute Senior Fellow Gordon Chang joined 'Fox & Friends First' to discuss concerns surrounding heightened tension between China and Taiwan and w...

Iranian weapons may force Ukraine's Western benefactors to allocate additional billions for counter-drone or air defense systems.

There’s no debating that we’re in tumultuous times, but who’s coming out ahead and who will be left behind? We asked geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan, cr...

Yasukazu Hamada is expected to play a key role in shepherding through some of the biggest changes in Japanese defense policy in nearly a decade.

IAEA reports to its members that three cascades of advanced IR-6 centrifuges have been brought online at underground facility

Members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) march during a parade to commemorate the anniversary of the Iran-Iraq war …

A number of former Israeli intelligence and army chiefs have urged Israel to prepare for possible military action against Iran as the country is close to a nuclear bomb, Israel Hayom reported on Sunda...

The war has disrupted sowing and other farm activities in major wheat producer Ukraine. Elsewhere, many farmers are using less fertilizers.

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The UN has estimated that 50 million people in 45 countries are living "each day on the edge of famine."

The debate on confrontation with China ignores a crucial conversation about atomic weapons

London-based Saudi news outlet says drones and mid-air refueling aircraft took part in exercises, managed to avoid Russian and Iranian sensors

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From the outset of Moscow’s re-invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, nuclear threats and blackmail have been integral to Russia’s overall strategy. President Vladimir Putin’s declaration of the “special military operation” was accompanied by the usual blood-curdling threats, expecting that such loaded language would deter or inhibit Western reactions to his war (Kremlin.ru, February 24). Moreover, initial Russian naval activities …