Emerging Risks

Bejing pushed back on changes made to NATO's Strategic Concept this week after the alliance listed China as a chief security concern.

Beijing’s efforts to build up nuclear forces, hacking operations and increasingly close ties to Moscow are ‘serious challenges’, says Nato secretary general

NYT: Israeli distrust-sowing moves see Revolutionary Guard intel chief ousted after foiled Turkey plot, senior officer nabbed; Israel 'infiltrated deep' into Iran security circles

Without more forceful intervention in Ukraine's war, the consequences for the U.S. and Europe could be devastating.

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Communist party official posts notice saying mass mandatory testing and travel curbs will continue

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"Peace is not available with Putin."Former foreign secretary William Hague says "there isn't a durable peace treaty that could be created between Ukraine and...

For many students, physical school wasn’t replaced with Zoom. Rather, school closures meant no school—literally none at all.

The great “convergence” of the mid-20th century may have been an anomaly.

The testing system set up by the CDC actually deters doctors from ordering a monkeypox test, and many physicians aren't familiar with the disease, resulting in too few tests and little tracking.

Anthony Albanese’s presence at the meeting is part of an intensifying effort to range as many nations as possible against Moscow and Beijing, officials said.

Leaders convene in Berlin over growing food crisis related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

The great “convergence” of the mid-20th century may have been an anomaly.

How the melting Arctic could lead to huge riches — but also a global conflict between Russia and the US.

As Nato leaders prepare to convene in Madrid next week for their annual summit, observers say the world's largest defence alliance is likely to harden its stance towards China over its position on Russia's war in Ukraine. China is expected to be identified for the first time in Nato's new strategic concept, a key document charting the 30-member bloc's future security trail and military development to be adopted at the summit. A recent Nato survey across all member states found China was viewed a

Vast surveillance data allows the state to target people whose behavior or characteristics are deemed suspicious by an algorithm, even if they’ve done nothing wrong.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Is North Korea preparing to deploy tactical nuclear weapons along its tense border with rival South Korea, which is only a short drive from the 26 million people living in and around Seoul, its capital?

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The great “convergence” of the mid-20th century may have been an anomaly.

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The millennia-old contest between China’s rulers and its people has never been more consequential.

Some law-enforcement officials remember how to make cities safe.

Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of the Russian Security Council, was in Kaliningrad on June 20, where he declared that Moscow was preparing a serious response to what he called Lithuania’s (already three-day-long) “transportation blockade” of that Russian exclave (Ren.tv, June 21). Hours earlier, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called in the head of the Lithuanian embassy in Moscow to …

A New York Times analysis of over 100,000 government bidding documents found that China’s ambition to collect digital and biological data from its citizens i...

Exclusive: Questions over palaces, vineyards and yachts run by entities that appear to be part of a cooperative

While there is growing speculation that federal agents and Capitol Police were involved in instigating acts of violence ...

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If we have so far avoided calling it war, maybe that’s only because we’ve become so uncertain of the meaning of the word.