Over the course of a four-day tour, he admired the Gulf capitals’ “gleaming marvels,” cheered on their ambitious modernization plans, and showcased over $3 trillion in pledged Gulf investment and ...

Washington’s war with Iran and the redeployment of U.S. defenses from the Indo-Pacific to the Middle East have further raised concern that China could seize the island without having to fear a U.S.

In recent years, speculation among analysts, experts, and scholars that America’s two key allies in the Indo-Pacific could finally pursue nuclear weapons has intensified. The eminent diplomat Henry ...

Since the Cold War ended, Russia has sought to shape Europe’s security architecture and impose its will on smaller neighbors. The Kremlin has also clashed with the United States and Europe at the ...

But it is not the first time a group of like-minded countries have been at peace for an extended time period. From 1598 to 1894, most of East Asia—China, Japan, Korea, the Ryukyu Kingdom (now part of ...

Dueling blockades have kept 20 percent of the global oil supply, 20 percent of the global supply of liquefied natural gas, and critical commodities such as helium, aluminum, and urea trapped inside ...

Japanese citizens have historically derided hawkish politicians and defense firms as “merchants of death.” These constraints on defense production have taken their toll. Japan is almost entirely ...

Yet that scene—a leader anxious about Washington, rushing to Beijing with a newfound urgency—has played out again and again since Trump’s return to the White House. In 2025, the leaders of Australia, ...

The attacks struck deeper into Pakistani territory than any since the 1971 India-Pakistan war, hitting two major cities in Punjab associated with anti-India terrorist groups. Pakistan countered by ...

Rooting out corruption was an early focus of Xi’s tenure, but he has intensified the effort in recent years: in 2025, the party’s discipline-inspection authorities filed more than one million cases, ...

The road to U.S.-Iranian peace begins with some on-the-ground basics—such as a pledge to maintain the present cease-fire and to not attack critical infrastructure, particularly in the Gulf. That means ...

It appears to want to end the long-standing stalemate between Libya’s two ruling factions—the UN-recognized government of Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dabaiba in the west in Tripoli and the domain of ...