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A more general political problem may be behind the new, recent mysterious purge hitting the Chinese military in the middle of a strategic modernization drive and
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A truce is necessary even to begin understanding Russia’s brinkmanship, as Moscow has reawakened the long-dormant monster of European militarism. Germany plans to build anti-raid shelters,

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Russian Hybrid Trap for China?

We seem to be facing a new style of hybrid military escalation. In February 2022, China believed Russia would easily win over Ukraine and cautiously supported it, thereby widening its rift with the US and creating a new fracture with
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Russia pivots east

Russian culture and history has long embraced a hybrid self-image: a western and an eastern, orientations sometimes compatible but more often in conflict. Geographically too, it is one-third in Europe, two-thirds in Asia. In 1703 Peter the Great built St.
- 4 November 2024
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The Pope threw his heart into Asia and sowed many religious and political seeds. The future is to grow them into plants. It won't be easy,
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The election of Donald Trump serves as a wake-up call for European Union defense initiatives, as, for the first time, Eastern and Western Europeans, along with

United States, a crisis in parts of

The world seems suspended in mid-air, awaiting the outcome of the American presidential elections and

War in Ukraine Stretches to East Asia

The announcement of deploying approximately 12,000 North Korean troops alongside long-range missiles to Russia changes

UNIFIL’s Fig Leaf on Diverging Worldviews

The crisis between Israel and UNIFIL highlights the collapse of a unified UN perspective and

Global Cracks from the U.S. Political Divide

A few thousand votes in perhaps a dozen counties scattered across three or four states

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