Emerging Risks

Taipei, Jan. 15 (CNA) British historian Niall Ferguson said Saturday China would likely ramp up pressure on Taiwan next year, stressing the key to warding off Beijing's threats against the island would be deterrence.

Around one in five health care workers have quit since the pandemic began.

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Israel, since its inception in 1948, has had strained ties with Islamic countries due to their support for Palestine. Although its relationship with most of them has gotten better over time, there are still 28 states including Pakistan that have refused to recognize the Jewish nation. Recent media reports have revealed shocking details about Israeli […]

  A lot of words have been devoted in the past few weeks to the possibility of an Israeli attack

There are only "a few weeks left" to save the Iran nuclear deal, and the United States is ready to look at "other options" if negotiations fail, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the U.S. is planning "things that we have not done in the past" if Russia invades Ukraine. Where do things stand now, and what can the U.S. do at this point?

The Hezbollah-held compound is only 186 miles away by air, says the Alma Research and Education Center.

Since 2017, evidence of Iran’s new precision-strike weapons capability has been raining down across the Middle East. In the last five years, the

Recent studies support the existence of the Ferguson Effect

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Rising prices, falling incomes and pandemic stresses have sparked social unrest and authoritarian crackdowns in middle-income countries across the world.

Europe is nearer war than it has been in 30 years, Poland's foreign minister warned during the third round of diplomacy this week aimed at defusing tensions over Russia's demand that Ukraine never be allowed to join NATO.

One way to avoid conflict may be to understand just how destructive it would be.

Russia needs trucks. But it’s woefully short.

Poland's foreign minister said on Thursday that Europe was at risk of plunging into war as Russia said it was not yet calling time on diplomacy but that military experts were preparing options in case tensions over Ukraine could not be defused.

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Israel is almost certain that the Lebanese group Hezbollah will respond militarily in the event that it strikes Iran’s nuclear facilities, a senior official has said.

A propaganda video that included commentary in Chinese dialects widely spoken across Taiwan was viewed as a pointed warning to the island's population.

Moscow says relations with the alliance are at ‘critically low level’ with ‘no positive agenda at all’

Fatih Birol says low gas flows to continent coincide with escalating rift over Ukraine

Stoltenberg urges Russia to co-operate ahead of Ukraine talks as Washington and Moscow envoys hold first discussions

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If Putin is not deterred from seizing another chunk of sovereign territory, he won’t stop there.

There is no sign that the U.S. armed services, or the defense establishment more broadly, are intellectually prepared for a Sino–American clash.

Russia's dealings — or, more accurately, its clashes — with the West have focused on one country in recent years: Ukraine.

Russia's military threat to invade Ukraine is the test case for whether Putin can redivide Europe.

Shoppers in Washington, D.C. react to empty shelves and product shortages at grocery stores.

U.S.-Russian relations may no longer be central to world politics, the way they used to be during the Cold War, but when it comes to strategic stability

The Sino-Russo “New Axis” The alliance between Russia and China is the greatest military threat...