- March 7th, 2026
US-Iran crisis: Another round of aircraft carrier deployments and ultimatums, another set of dire predictions about imminent war in the Middle East. Yet here we are again, watching Washington and Tehran engage in a ritualized choreography of brinkmanship that has...
Renewed Chinese and Pakistani investment in the long-delayed Reko Diq copper-gold project is reshaping perceptions of Balochistan, suggesting that major investors are reassessing both the scale of the province’s buried mineral wealth and the strategic logic of remaining engaged despite...
Iran marked the 47th anniversary of its 1979 Islamic Revolution on February 11 under the shadow of extraordinary internal unrest and intensifying external threats, as fears grow that the United States and Israel could once again launch military strikes on...
As tensions once again rise across the Middle East, one question continues to perplex policymakers and military planners alike: how is Iran—battered by decades of sanctions, politically isolated, economically strained, and militarily degraded—still able to stand firm against the combined...
China’s sweeping anti-corruption campaign inside the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has reached its most dramatic and destabilizing phase yet, with the investigation of one of the country’s most senior generals shaking the foundations of the world’s largest military force. The...
The United States’ recent foreign policy posture — most starkly visible in Venezuela and Greenland — has raised unsettling questions about Washington’s direction on the world stage. From the alleged abduction of Venezuela’s president to explicit threats involving the annexation...
The absence of any reference to the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD) in the United States’ newly released 24-page National Defense Strategy (NDS) on January 23 has reignited debate about the Trump administration’s true commitment to the Indo-Pacific’s most prominent minilateral...
Vaclav Havel’s seminal 1978 essay The Power of the Powerless is rarely encountered today outside university syllabi or the shelves of political theorists. That absence is telling. In an era defined by strategic ambiguity, selective morality and the quiet retreat...
The first official trilateral talks between the United States, Russia and Ukraine since the outbreak of the war in February 2022 briefly raised hopes that diplomacy might finally gain traction. Instead, the meeting ended on Saturday (Jan 24) without a...
A sharply worded editorial published by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Daily has cast an unusually stark spotlight on the political significance of the investigations into two of China’s most senior military leaders, Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli, underscoring what...
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