Emerging Risks

In #Russia, Kremlin’s propaganda released a short animation showing a Russian nuclear strike on the #US, with devastation of American cities including San Francisco and New York City. Kremlin’s wet dreams about the world they want to live in.

China is weaponizing everything in its strategic tool kit against the United States.

In the global conflict with the Moscow-Beijing-Tehran axis, the American superpower needs to walk and chew gum.

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America’s adversaries are preparing for wider conflict — to prevent war, it needs to do so as well.

A Chinese container ship owned by a Russian company fled the scene after its anchor damaged a Finnish gas pipeline.

In the Himalayan “Great Game,” China possesses a strong infrastructure advantage over India.

Since Hamas attacked southern Israel on October 7, 2023, signs that Iran seeks to open another front against Israel from Syria are emerging. Along with reports of three incidents of rocket fire into Israel from areas of Syria under Syrian regime control, where Hizbullah and other Iran-backed militias are known to have a significant presence,[1]there are also indications of a possible widescale operation against Israel from Syria by the Iran-backed militias under the command of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

FBI Director Christopher Wray is warning that the terror threat against the U.S. has been increased to a "whole other level' after the Hamas attack against Israel.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi accused Israel of crossing "red lines," but did not elaborate on what they were in his statement.

BREAKING: Reports that the 🇮🇱 IDF has conducted retaliatory strikes in southern Syria after a rocket was fired at the Golan Heights

It’s time to stop letting Tehran hide behind Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis.

US military deployments to the Middle East are intended to prepare for any escalation by Iranian proxies.

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We’ve spent decades worrying about the dangers of China’s rise. We should worry even more if that rise is coming to a halt.

Face-off could damage trust and affect ongoing South China Sea code of conduct talks, researcher at National Institute for South China Sea Studies warns.

THE Gaza crisis could spiral into an all-out world war in six terrifying steps, an ex-Navy chief has warned. If things “go really wrong”, Admiral Lord West predicted the UK and US could…

A region-wide crisis could break out in the Middle East over one single misstep, experts told The Daily Beast.

The West Bank was tense even before the Hamas-Israel war amid the emergence of armed groups and almost daily Israeli raids in Palestinian cities and towns.

All peace requires is for Biden to restore presidential support for the Abraham Accords, to resume the Trump Administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign directed against Iran, and for the Biden Administration to stop belittling Israel and Saudi Arabia in public for purported human rights abuses.

Walid Jumblatt blames the US for stoking the Middle East crisis by neglecting Palestinian aspirations of statehood.

The Defense Department said in a report to Congress that Beijing’s “coercive” air intercepts were aimed at intimidating U.S. forces in the region.

Today the global order faces a growing series of interlocking crises so grave in nature as to potentially threaten its existence

Hossein Amirabdollahian meets Hamas leader Haniyeh in Qatar; report claims Tehran has conveyed to Israel it will intervene if strikes on Hamas continue

"Those who play with fire will perish by it," Chinese state-run newspaper the Global Times wrote after a U.S. report on Russia and China was released.

Amid the Israel-Gaza war, an old video of Hamas co-founder Mahmoud Al-Zahar has resurfaced in which he gave a chilling warning to the world about the militan...