Emerging Risks

US troops and their families at major bases in South Korea and Japan could end up as "missile hostages" to North Korea (or China) in a crisis.

“This region will become a nuclear tinderbox. This will bring war, and then another war,” he said. “We are going from a bad deal to a worse deal.”

Britain warned of potential cyberattacks with "international consequences" on Tuesday after Russian President Vladimir Puitin ordered troops to two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine.

President Biden will deliver a speech addressing the Ukraine crisis at 1 p.m. ET, the White House said, after Russia's president signed a decree recognizing two breakaway republics.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian lawmakers on Tuesday authorized President Vladimir Putin to use military force outside the country — a move that could presage a broader attack on Ukraine after the U.S.

[Elite capture] is a crucial tool of [China's] success. The idea is simple enough: by tempting another country's elite with money, access and favors, you move them to see their interests and China's interests as intertwined or even the same. [Each] of

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To return to a theme. For me, the moment that seemed to pierce reality, Don Delillo in real life, was when anarchists protested in favor of mask mandates. Children in black hoodies who wave the anarchist flag fight for the government and its right to override individual choice. They do not do so because of how they have parsed Bakunin or Kropotkin; they never bothered to know what anarchism is or means in the first place. Why would they? Politics is only who you sneer at and who sneers at you. Jeremy Corbyn was briefly the most powerful authentically-socialist politician in the Anglophone world in generations. His reward is the World Socialist Website declaring him a “pseudo-leftist.” A lifetime of actual socialist

The autocrat has been trying for decades to end what he sees as a prolonged period of Russian humiliation.

The Russian president is leveraging a reconstituted military to force the world to reckon with his demands.

Now, as Russia uncoils its forces, there are no good choices. Only the consequences of bad ones.

Michael Losacco is a former active-duty U.S. Army officer who served in Afghanistan in 2017. He currently studies at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service where he focuses on U

The revival of the Iran nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), is nearing an agreement. Iran’s top negotiator Ali Bagheri Kan...

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The Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Michael Shoebridge says Australia should be taking the threat of China “very seriously”. “We should take them as ...

The facility in Natanz is built deep under a massive mountain, making it extremely difficult for the IDF to ever bomb it.

The messages from Iran’s key military leaders and its allies in Lebanon are clear.

Beijing wants the world to embrace its authoritarian model. But the country is also part of a highly integrated global economy. A Q&A with Elizabeth Economy.

Evidence suggests Russia is planning "the biggest war in Europe since 1945", Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.He told the BBC's Sophie Raworth in an int...

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China ranked 12th on 2021 Global Innovation Index, commerce ministry points out in calling for an objective approach from the US.

Former White House National Security Council John Bolton said the Biden administration needs to call on China to denuclearize North Korea

MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian military on Friday announced massive drills of its strategic nuclear forces, a stark reminder of the country's nuclear might amid Western fears that Moscow might be preparing to invade Ukraine .

What we mean by 'consensus' may not always be clear to the people we're talking to - unless we clarify our terms, we may not reach people

Congress gave the Biden administration two years to develop a strategy. One year in, there is little evidence that the work has started.

Gen. Jack Keane weighs in on a potential cyberattack on the US from Russia and its strategy on Belarus on ‘Your World.’ #FoxNews #YourWorldSubscribe to Fox N...

In 1914, a single bullet fired into the chest of Archduke Ferdinand by a Serbian terrorist quickly and unexpectedly exploded into World War I.

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Hezbollah chief reportedly left secure Beirut bunker to visit Tehran, where Iranians told him they expect his Lebanese terror group to respond militarily if Israel hits facilities

US economy in trouble? in the year ahead we could see real-world financial market stress as a result of bubbles bursting on several fronts.