In April 2025, Chinese coast guard personnel stepped onto Sandy Cay, an uninhabited sandbar in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, and unfurled the Chinese flag. In much of the world, this act ...

The clean energy transition has entered a new phase. Ambitious net-zero emission pledges made over the past decade have fallen glaringly short of their goals. But the rise of artificial ...

The Chinese navy, too, maintained at least 190 vessels operating around the island monthly. After a brief and unexplained drop in early 2026, air and naval activities have been escalating again. And ...

With the prospects for diplomacy between the United States and Iran uncertain, it may seem premature to contemplate the postwar future. After all, following the June 17 memorandum of understanding, ...

And so African countries are now leaning toward the “electro-state” development model advanced by China, in which abundant, low-cost electricity from renewables underpins industrialization and ...

For millions of people, the images seemed to herald the arrival of a new age. To understand why those images mattered, it is necessary to remember how threatening Iraq seemed before the war began.

By most accounts, China has the upper hand in its growing economic confrontation with the United States. In April 2025, after Washington levied heavy tariffs on China, Beijing res ...

In the nine months since a cease-fire ended full-on war in Gaza, the world’s attention has in many ways moved on. That has been especially true since February, with the start of the war in Iran. But ...

China’s domestic economic slowdown is the primary driver of its export strength, because weak domestic demand in China means that excess production is exported at lower prices. Even using Beijing’s ...

Since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to office, no state has been too small to find itself in his crosshairs. In his inaugural address in January 2025, Trump pledged to take back the Panama ...

Despite some allegations that Anthropic’s warnings about Mythos simply constituted marketing, leading commercial software companies given early access to the model have corroborated Anthropic’s claim.