Tanzania Is China’s Gateway To Africa
Beijing has long understood the value of strong ties with the East African country. Read More Here
Belt And Road Buddhism In Sri Lanka?
China is using Buddhist narratives to promote its soft power in Sri Lanka – and bolster its image as a harmonious regional power. Read More Here
Will China Prove The Doomsayers Wrong?
Investors seem convinced that Chinese President Xi Jinping’s new leadership lacks the knowhow and independence to mount an effective response to the profound economic challenges the country faces. Whether they are proved right or wrong depends – like virtually everything else in China nowadays – on the man at the top. Read More Here
A Century Into Ataturk’s Republic, Turks Charting A Path Into The Unknown
There’s been much talk of a post-post-Kemalist era, with Turks moving away from AKP conservatism and strongman politics. Read More Here
Secure At Home, Xi Steps Back Onto The Global Stage
The Chinese leader met Germany’s Olaf Scholz last week before appearances in Indonesia and Thailand later this month. Read More Here
The Age Of Megathreats
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
U.S. Midterm Results Are A Net Plus For National Security
As Trumpism deflates, internationalist Republicans will press the Biden administration on China, defense, and trade. Read More Here
Africa’s Past Is Not Its Future
Today, Africa still exists at the margins of the global order, largely excluded from international institutions and treated as a basket case to be fixed. Read More Here
Tech Containment Is Core To Washington’s Cold War 2.0 Strategy
Technology is where national interest, human progress, education, innovation, culture, and economic development converge. Thus, technology will continue redrawing geopolitical lines, redefining sovereignty, and altering the global order in the 21st century. Read More Here
Nuclear Escalation Would Be Disastrous For Russia
There is no such thing as a limited nuclear war in Europe and Russia would be foolish to expect that it could contain a nuclear war on Ukrainian territory. Read More Here
