Emerging Risks

Calls grow for a global planetary defense strategy as thousands of near-Earth asteroids are discovered each year.

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The Thucydides Trap states that when a rising power meets a waning one, war becomes inevitable. But China-US relations are more complicated than a simple power battle, writes Stan Grant.

Experts discuss with Newsweek what would happen next if China invades Taiwan.

A new book argues that the media’s moral panic about race has distracted Americans from the chasm of class.

Kevin Mandia says Iran has upped its hacking game and is "has gotten good at leapfrogging" U.S. cybersecurity in an asymmetric war the U.S. is poised to lose.

Iran’s military drone program has grown in recent years and Iran-backed groups have increasingly used drones in conflicts.

It's not enough to build a nuclear weapon, but Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium (HEU) has substantially exceeded the limitations agreed to under the 2015 Iran Deal.

NATO, the U.S. Government, and all other “neoconservatives” (adherents to Cecil Rhodes’s 1877 plan for a global U.S. empire that would be run, behind the scenes, by the UK’s aristocracy) have been treating Russia, China, and Iran, as being their enemies. In consequence of this: Russia, China, and Iran, have increasingly been coordinating their international […]

Monday’s summit between Xi and Biden addressed everything from trade to security and human rights, but resolved nothing.

Leaked Documents and Audio from the California Teachers Association Conference Reveal Efforts to Subvert Parents on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation

For as long as most of us have been alive, there have been declarations that America’s best days are behind us and that we are in a slow, steady decline. Against this backdrop, there is a growing…

The scientific and circumstantial evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic resulted from a lab accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology is close to dispositive.

The country is in the grip of the most concerted government campaign to assert greater control over its people in decades.

Talk of secession is on the rise among Americans—and already weakening the country.

As the United States talks more and more of defending Taiwan from an attack from the mainland, Taiwan’s military seems to be taking its defense

Most European leaders are disillusioned with Russia. But continuing divisions inside the EU over how to deal with the Kremlin prevent a coherent Russia strategy and play into the hands of Putin.

"The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power" explores the brewing cyberwar between Western democracies and autocracies.

There is only one logical endpoint to the war on human suffering.

Another “Western” idea takes hold, despite Beijing’s best efforts.

Gen. John Hyten, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff spoke to CBS News on Tuesday.

A leading Asian investment bank has warned that a new financial crisis is emerging in China, as debt levels rise to unsustainable levels.

A US congressional commission has been told that China is “seeking to advance” its sovereignty claim over Taiwan.

Dark echoes of world war lurk in Asia's dangerous, contested waters.

BY FORCE: Is physical occupation backed by military force the only option left in resolving territorial disputes between the Philippines and China in their common waters? by Federico D. Pascual Jr.

World War III may not be as unlikely as you think.

Australia, India, Japan and the US are all stepping up wargames in the Indo-Pacific in response to China's sabre rattling over disputed islands in the South and East China Sea.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has said China will spur military innovation and called on the army to create a new strategy for "information warfare" as the country embarks on military reform,...

PLA commanders should study the Qing dynasty's humiliating defeat to imperial Japan, a push seen by analysts as a warning against corruption in today's military, the leading military newspaper says.