China would need to do more than kill or capture Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te, as that would leave intact the rest of the government, which has a clear line of succession. The PLA is thus likely ...

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There is no doubt that despite its many weaknesses, the Iranian Establishment still has deep roots of support. There are no ...

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The administration’s new National Security Strategy has pushed the U.S. policy toward the island in a decidedly dangerous ...

The Communist Party chief has ripped up bureaucratic red tape and empowered the private sector, but also tightened media restrictions and squashed dissent.

Given the trend of our conversation, the question caught me off guard temporarily, though it did not totally surprise me ...

One of the pretexts it used was the alleged mistreatment of the ethnic Chinese in Vietnam. Tension between the ethnic Chinese and governments in Vietnam had been ongoing for decades. The French used ...

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Relative Calm Regionally, any change in the Iranian regime inevitably means the fall of influence that had reached ...

From Moscow to Washington, big power politics have returned to the global stage. It would be easy to dismiss the actions of the last few years as large nations doing what they have always done, but ...

Against this backdrop, the Philippines stands out for its heavy reliance on the “rules-based order” in dealing with China in the West Philippine Sea. Under President Marcos Jr., the Philippine ...