China’s assertiveness and America’s withdrawal are creating short circuits and bringing the world into a nuclear escalation. Both China and the US would lose. They need serious steps to avert the worst. Just hours before the 2025 winter solstice, the Japanese press reported that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is considering building a nuclear bomb. Similar […]
A question might haunt Washington: who should decide on international policy, the US alone or in consultation with allies? Ancient Rome faced the same trouble. On December 15, the head of the UK intelligence agency MI6, Blaise Metreweli, in her first public speech, said, “We are now operating in a space between peace and war,” […]
The EU vote to seize Russian assets is a significant loss for the comrade President and has cast a ballot in the negotiations nobody can ignore. Some things are unclear about the prospects following the EU’s decision to seize €210 billion in Russian assets. A few are very clear. Yet none, the clear and unclear, […]
Some in America might want to save Russia from itself, and rightly so. But the current deal only makes things worse. The US needs a clearer, more comprehensive plan to address the issue. There are few enough ways to state it: Russian President Vladimir Putin has not won on the battlefield. He has not conquered […]
It’s not about Ukraine, but the future of America. Does US President Donald Trump want to be like Scipio, Hannibal, or Qin Shi Huang? In the end, it was all about alliances. It was a pivotal moment for civilizations, the story behind the longest-lasting and most copied empire in history. It was the battle against […]
The report is realistic but may open new fissures between the US and its allies. America needs a common project to deal with future massive challenges. Peter Frankopan writes a strong assessment of the recently published and controversial American report on National Security: “Rather than offering the usual blend of aspiration and reassurance, it sets […]
Political fig leaves, Trump’s Chinese agenda, North Korea’s nuclear missiles, and the use of force. There are four distinct yet interconnected sets of problems fueling the ongoing Chinese rhetorical offensive against Japan over Taiwan. The island is, de facto independent but de jure part of one China, as the Republic of China (ROC), thus officially […]
