Geopolitics

Foreign heads of state said little publicly in response to the indictment on April 4, 2023 of former President Donald Trump, but El Salvador President Nayib Bukele took note of the obvious. Read More.

The Department of Defense announced on Tuesday it was sending $2.6 billion more of U.S. military hardware to Ukraine. Read More.

A top official at the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) in South Korea has been arrested after being accused of photographing U.S. military facilities in South Korea and sending the photos to operatives in North Korea. Read More.

In the course of just over a week, China and Russia reaffirmed their friendship and military ties, the Iranian regime proxies lashed out with rockets at U.S. forces in neighboring Syria, North Korea shot off a few more missiles, France was rocked by serious rioting, all to the backdrop of what could well be a global banking crisis sending financial shockwaves from Silicon Valley to Switzerland. Read More.

Honduras has established diplomatic relations with China and formally cut ties with Taiwan. Read More.

Despite a widening war with Russia, shipments of Ukrainian food and grain are still being shipped to global markets under a complex but fragile accord brokered by the United Nations and nearby Turkey. Read More.

President Xi Jinping of the People's Republic of China is often photographed with a smug smile, bordering on a smirk. It conveys the satisfaction that comes with presumed success. Read More.

No nation has done more during the Biden administration to marginalize the U.S. dollar than China. Read More.

The theatrical pomp and circumstance of China’s National People’s Congress presents an annual political ritual on the verge of Spring. Nearly 3,000 delegates assembled in Beijing to participate in the week long sessions and delivered-on-demand results for the ruling Communist Party leadership; formalizing the unprecedented third term for Chairman/President Xi Jinping, endorsing the new Premier Li Qiang and approving an 7.2 percent increase in the defense budget. Read More.

Zhou Xiaoping (周小平), the “Wolf Warrior”, sponsored a resolution to create a Black List” (黑名单) that would target Taiwan “separatists” for execution by China’s special operation units. Read More.

In meetings with top U.S. defense officials over the past two weeks, Israel has attempted to create a united front against the rising threat from Iran and its stable of terrorist proxies. Read More.

In the anxious countdown to the Coronation of King Charles III, the United Kingdom is shadowed by a raft of economic and political woes ranging from the soaring cost of living to an uneasy nervousness of what’s next in the Ukraine war. Though bracing through the gloomy and cold weather, amid rising food costs, Londoners know spring is coming along with the Coronation May 6th, but what then of facing a turbulent economy and world situation? Read More.

In order to get UK residents in full compliance with the government's draconian lockdown rules, then-Health Secretary Matt Hancock suggested "frightening the pants off" the public with the arrival of a new Covid variant, according to leaked WhatsApp messages. Read More.

In the first hearing of the newly formed House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, committee chair Rep. Mike Gallagher said the U.S. is in an “existential struggle” with the CCP “over what life will look like in the 21st century.” Read More.

Dr. Li Meng Yan, the Chinese virologist who in early 2020 said Covid was "intentionally released" by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), said she stands by those comments in light of the U.S. Energy Department's finding that the virus was most likely the result of a Wuhan lab leak. Read More.