Emerging Risks

Sky News host Paul Murray says the West is "clearly getting weaker" while China continues to get stronger."It's an election issue," Mr Murray said."You need ...

Sky News host Andrew Bolt says people need to face up to the “rot in our culture that is making us dangerously weak”. “We’re obsessing about our gender pronouns, our racial identity, and what victims we are,” Mr Bolt said. “What is China up to? “The Pentagon now thinks China will have five times more nuclear weapons in 10 years than the US first thought, and China is also testing a hypersonic missile that flies at five times the speed of sound. “All of this is freaking Australia of course, you’ve seen the Morrison government, how it’s hurriedly teamed up with the US and Britain to get more advanced weapons out here quick.” Mr Bolt said “our pride in what we have and our willingness to defend” in the West is “collapsing already”. “So what are we going to do about that?”

Joe Biden says the US 'has a commitment' to defend Taiwan against China.His administration, meanwhile, tries to downplay that commitment.Who is right, and wh...

Medcare Asia Pacific’s Andrew Phelan says the next decade will be “the decade of living dangerously”, as China continues to build military capability. Mr Phe...

Australia should be concerned as the Chinese are "bulking up" and preparing for the possibility of a major war occurring in the second half of this decade, s...

The prospect of continued deadlock in 2022 means there is a growing chance of escalation, but nobody wants a war

Last week, John Durham’s grand jury issued its third criminal indictment in the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. The person who was arrested may be obscure; the...

The Chinese military has built targets in the shape of an American aircraft carrier and other U.S. warships in the Taklamakan desert as part of a new target range complex, according to photos provided to USNI News by satellite imagery company Maxar. The full-scale outline of a U.S. carrier and at least two Arleigh Burke-class destroyers …

America's current nuclear deterrent is based on the 1960s Cold-War relic known as MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction), which assumed the U.S. could absorb a surprise first strike against our nuclear forc

The Atlantic Council’s Mark Massa says there is no debate that China’s nuclear build-up is alarming.This comes after the US confirmed China to be testing hyp...

The Pentagon’s annual report on China’s military capabilities confirms that Beijing’s days of maintaining a minimum nuclear deterrent are over. Along with several other concerning military developments, the report makes clear that China is headed toward becoming a nuclear peer (or surpassing) the United States and Russia—a state of affairs for which U.S. nuclear forces are wholly unprepared.

David J. Trachtenberg, Back to the Future: A Misguided Understanding of China’s Nuclear Intent, No. 507, November 4, 2021 Download PDF David J. Trachtenberg is Vice President of th

The government’s approach to strategic competition is problematic, but there are military, technological, interagency, and combined approaches that would help.

After the discovery during the summer of what appears to be at least three vast missile silo fields under construction near Yumen, Hami, and Ordos in north-central China, new commercial satellite images show significant progress at the three sites as well as at the People’s Liberation Army Rocket Fo

A top Taiwan security official told lawmakers on Thursday that China had internally debated whether to attack Taiwan's Pratas Islands but will not do so before 2024, the year President Tsai Ing-wen's term ends.

Get Sharri Markson’s book ‘What Really Happened in Wuhan’ here: https://linktr.ee/WhatReallyHappenedInWuhanThis Sky News Australia special investigation into...

Evergrande has laid bare Beijing’s secret: structural weaknesses are sending China into decline.

A cold war is already under way. The question is whether Washington can deter Beijing from initiating a hot one.

"The rampant speculation has linked the request for food stocks to rising tensions between Beijing and Taipei." In the background sits the real risk of a big war. ... Read more

The Chinese Communist Party publication said tensions could lead to "a life-and-death struggle" forcing the U.S. to sacrifice "the lives of Americans."

Get Sharri Markson’s book ‘What Really Happened in Wuhan’ here: https://linktr.ee/WhatReallyHappenedInWuhanThis Sky News Australia special investigation into...

This is a first-class piece of investigative journalism. Those who backed Sharri Markson to undertake it deserve great credit. She merits high praise for the extraordinary work she has done in pulling together and publicly exposing for our close scrutiny what the Chinese Communist Party, cabals of self-interested and complicit American scientists and bureaucrats and politically correct journalists covered up: the actual origins of the COVID-19 virus.

The self-ruled island has moved to the heart of deepening discord and rivalry between the two superpowers, with the potential to ignite military conflagration and reshape the regional order.

A cold war between the United States and China is obviously not desirable, nor is it necessarily inevitable. But it is very difficult to see how Beijing and Washington, either individually or

This video is narrated by Hedgeye Demography Sector Head Neil Howe describing the generational theory put forth in his 1997 classic “The Fourth Turning,” co-aut

Recent images of some of the thousands of Haitians (and others) making their difficult trek north through Central America, toward the U.S.

Trump’s charges of fraud in 2020 are not about looking back, as many Republicans insist. They are about establishing the predicate to challenge future election results more effectively.

Activity more overt and reckless despite US, British and other political efforts to bring it to a halt

Sunday's IDF operation dismantled a terror initiative that had damage potential similar to the Second Intifada, making Hamas's intention crystal clear.

It is concentrated by place, among individuals, and at certain times.