Emerging Risks

MOSCOW (AP) — A new Russian intercontinental ballistic missile is capable of carrying several hypersonic weapons, a senior Russian military officer said Sunday. Col. Gen. Sergei Karakayev, the commander of the Russian military's Strategic Missile Forces, said in televised remarks that the new Sarmat ICBM is designed to carry several Avangard hypersonic glide vehicles.

Putin and other Russian officials have repeatedly warned Russia could use nuclear weapons against NATO nations if they intervene in the Ukraine invasion.

The war between Russia and Ukraine is putting a massive strain on the global food supply. Food prices in the U.S. soared to record heights along with other c...

Ali Velshi reports on four separate instances of Kremlin-connected, extremely wealthy Russians with ties to the oil industry who have died by suicide since R...

Under-fives are falling ill but the scale of the outbreak, combined with a complete absence of the ‘usual suspects’, is baffling scientists

The Termination of Russian Oil - Peter Zeihan Russia Ukraine War UpdateFirst, infrastructure. All of Russia’s oil flows first travel by pipe—in some cases fo...

Have the field's dominant paradigms failed?

Experts say volume of dissent from Shanghai over zero-Covid measures challenging attempts to control information

Ukraine claims to have doxed Russian troops and spies, while hacktivists are regularly leaking private information from Russian organizations.

The Cold War 2.0 reboot is far more perilous than the first Cold War’s fight against the Soviets

Japan, like Taiwan to the south, has reported a significant uptick in Chinese aircraft activity in its surrounding skies this past year.

Starvation will push and pull human psychology in unusual directions—it is one of the few things that can overcome fear of the authorities. When famine came to China 400 years ago, it made Chinese peasants receptive to the preachers of class war. When the government failed to provide crucial

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Thanks to its zero tolerance for Covid-19 cases, China was the only major economy to grow in 2020.While the rest of the world battled wave after wave of coro...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi Monday warned that Israel will be targeted by his country's armed forces if it makes “the tiniest move” against Iran. He spoke as talks stalled in Vienna over a deal to rein in Iran's nuclear capabilities, which Tehran says are used for peaceful purposes.

The world must acknowledge that the relationship between Xi’s China and Putin’s Russia has transformed into one of “strategic entente.”

In the Finnish town of Imatra, on the country's eastern border with Russia, residents are keeping a watchful eye on their neighbours to the east as tensions ...

Preventing NATO expansion is one of Vladimir Putin’s primary justifications for invading Ukraine. The war appears likely to backfire on this front, as Finland and Sweden seriously consider joini

Israel advances with the development of a laser-based missile interceptor system that should significantly change the balance of powers in the region.

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The mounting cost of China's zero-Covid policy threatens to derail Beijing's ambitious GDP target, analysts say, as supply chains snarl, ports face delays and Shanghai remains mired in lockdown.

Moody's said Russia may be in default because it tried to service its dollar bonds in roubles, which would be one of the starkest consequences to date of Moscow's exclusion from the Western financial system since President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

It’s not just a phase.

The FBI on Thursday blamed hackers associated with the North Korean government for stealing more than $600 million in cryptocurrency last month from a video gaming company -- the latest in a string of audacious cyber heists tied to Pyongyang.

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Hoover Institution scholar and Princeton University professor Stephen Kotkin uses his review essay in Foreign Affairs of Richard Overy’s new book on the Second World War, Blood and Ruins: The La

Locals report increasing starvation deaths and disappearances among their neighbors, but Pyongyang is most concerned with preventing the harsh reality from souring planned celebrations.

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