Geopolitics

The growing nuclear threat posed by China is “potentially catastrophic” and the United States needs to bolster its deterrence to deal with it, a group of senior specialists have warned. Read More.

For 40 years, the two isolated states have been cooperating on missile technology. Every step of the way, they have defied international sanctions while building two of the most threatening missile programs on the planet. Read More.

It’s hardly a surprise, but an affirmation of the obvious. Burma’s military regime is being backed, supported and protected by both Russia and China. Read More.

Chinese "compatriots" in the United States are being called on to "serve the motherland." Read More.

Another earthquake has jolted Turkey. But contrary to the seismic calamity which devastated large parts of eastern Turkey in February killing more than 50,000 people this was an electoral jolt whose political shockwaves and aftershocks continue to rattle the entire country from Istanbul, through the Anatolian plain to far off Mt. Ararat on the Armenian frontier. Read More.

The National Election Commission (NEC), a constitutional independent institution established to manage South Korea's elections, has refused to cooperate with an investigation into North Korea hacking attempts made on the NEC and the equipment it uses which is used in other nations' elections, a report said. Read More.

The British do pageantry very well. Certainly the history, regalia and sacred symbolism all merged spectacularly for the Coronation of King Charles III, the first such event in seventy years. Read More.

The Chinese Communist Party’s brutal crackdown on political and civil rights has made it unsafe to do business in Hong Kong, the son of an imprisoned media tycoon toldd multinational corporations in an address to a U.S. congressional hearing on Thursday. Read More.

Taiwan’s unofficial ambassador to the United States reiterated that, despite China’s threats, Taiwan should not be counted out. Read More.

Violent protests erupted throughout Pakistan following the arrest on Tuesday of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, reports say. Read More.

There’s blood in the Nile. The mighty river separating Sudan’s capital city Khartoum has seen fighting erupt between two rival factions of the Army. Read More.

Kim Yo-Jong, sister of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un and a top official in the communist regime, hurled a series of insults at Joe Biden this past weekend, accusing the 80-year-old occupant of the White House of endangering America with his “senility” and being incapable of serving through 2024. Read More.

Paraguayan conservative economist Santiago Pena, 44, won the country's presidential election on Sunday, defeating a leftist ticket that was backed by World Economic Forum (WEF) founder and "Great Reset" architect Klaus Schwab. Read More.

Seventy years is a long time, especially for a military alliance even between friends.  There are few in the world, notably including the Atlantic Alliance, forming NATO in 1949. Read More.

The writing was on the wall. But when Brazil’s leftwing president Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva visited China recently, he flamboyantly underscored economic and security ties between Latin America’s largest democracy and the world’s largest dictatorship. Read More.