Just in the past 24 months, an astonishing number of armed conflicts have started, renewed, or escalated. Some had been fully frozen, meaning that the sides had not sustained direct combat in years; others were long simmering, meaning that low-level fighting would intermittently erupt. All have now become active. Read More Here.
President Vladimir Putin’s decision to launch a full-scale re-invasion of Ukraine one year ago was a global shock which marked an abrupt end to 30 years of globalization and all the international co-operation that made that possible, Read More Here
Ukraine war, bursting of the China myth and the realization of the risks of World War III surrounding Taiwan. Read More Here
“The world expects, I believe, China and the United States to play key roles in addressing global challenges, from climate changes to food insecurity, and for us to be able to work together,” U.S. President Joe Biden said at his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Bali where world leaders are meeting for the […]
The leaders of the U.S. and China are meeting amid high tension, but both have reason to lower the temperature. Here’s how they could. Read More Here
It’s already clear summit will fail to agree on joint communique as West insists on condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine. Read More Here
For four decades after World War II, climate change and job-displacing artificial intelligence were not on anyone’s mind, and terms like “deglobalization” and “trade war” had no purchase. But now we are entering a new era that will more closely resemble the tumultuous and dark decades between 1914 and 1945. Read More Here
The prospect of a timeless future has given way to visions of no future at all. Ideology remains a fault line in geopolitics, market globalisation is fragmenting, and great-power conflict has become increasingly likely. Read More Here
How would the high-tech U.S. military fare in a war against China or Russia? The ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War may provide some answers. It may call into question some deeply held U.S. military axioms. Read More Here
World leaders are failing to prepare for a new era of complex and often unpredictable risks to peace as profound environmental and security crises converge and intensify, according to a major report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Read More Here
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