Geopolitics

China threatened the U.S. and Japan after leaders at the G-7 summit, in a first, issued a communique which voiced support for Taiwan. Read More.

The term "human rights lawyer" is often used to characterize the background of South Korea's leftist President Moon Jae-In. Read More.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is trying to contain a scandal at a prestigious university following the murder of a CCP commissar who was responsible for preventing the spread of Western ideas about human rights and free speech. Read More.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has eliminated one of the last vestiges of freedom in Hong Kong with the forced closure of the pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper. Read More.

John Ratcliffe, Trump administration Director of National Intelligence, said that he “could make an argument that the first five months of the Biden administration have been the best of Vladimir Putin’s political life.” Read More.

Were there great expectations for the summit meeting in Geneva between President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin? Read More.

“When 28 Chinese warplanes streaked through the skies around Taiwan on [June 15] – the largest such incursion this year – they followed a pattern that has generated alarm among U.S. and Taiwanese military planners,” Bloomberg News reported June 16. Read More.

Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities ordered police in Hong Kong to raid the offices of the pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper on Thursday. Read More.

European majorities seem troubled and deeply disillusioned over the ongoing COVID pandemic, which has turned into a crisis of confidence in the European Union, and equally stirred lingering doubts about the United States as a partner and ally. Read More.

A potential nuclear leak was reported on Monday at the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in China’s Guangdong Province, which is home to about 126 million people. Read More.

China said it was a routine mission, but on May 31 the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) entered Malaysia’s “maritime airspace” with sixteen large transport aircraft arrayed in a tactical formation that would be used to perform a strike by Airborne troops. Read More.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga this week highlighted Australia, New Zealand, and Taiwan as countries which handled the Covid crisis well. Read More.

The 12-year consecutive term of Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel's prime minister likely came to an end last week when Yesh Atid Party head Yair Lapid and Yamina Party head Naftali Bennett announced that they had secured an agreement to form Israel’s next government. Read More.

Hunter Biden isn’t the only one capitalizing on Chinese nuclear ambitions. Read More.

On May 2, 2011 the United States carried out its famous raid that eliminated terrorist Osama Bin Laden in his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Read More.