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For three years, the West has waited for Russia to crack — and it hasn’t. Moscow absorbed the sanctions, replaced its losses, and... Read More

Europe has reached the end of an era. Not the end of its history, but the end of its false form. For decades, the European Union served as... Read More

The US market is still a safer bet for the German economy than the Chinese one.   Read More

The U.S.-China rivalry has produced neither full economic separation nor ordinary commercial goodwill. It has created an intermediate... Read More

The image of one man against many tanks stands as a vivid reminder of the cost of bravery, but also of the necessity and power of moral... Read More

Yet another blowout jobs report this morning, with the addition of 172,000 jobs beating all expectations and the prior months revised upward... Read More

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun delivered a searing rebuke to Iran on Friday, accusing it of using his country as a bargaining chip against... Read More

It is maddening to be handcuffed by the US president when fighting Hezbollah, especially when Israeli soldiers and civilians are falling... Read More

The recent appointment of George Deek as Israel’s special envoy to the Christian world has been framed by the Ministry of Foreign... Read More

Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to Armenia last week showed that Washington is seriously invested in the South Caucasus. In... Read More

Anti-Zionism is rising among diaspora Jews; the future of Jewish identity may be increasingly Israeli.   Read More

Saudi Arabia: No Normalization Without Guarantees Read More

“Time and again, leaders have looked the other way, only re-arming when disaster is upon them. This time, it must be different.”... Read More

The French government has criminalized the use of nicotine pouches. Users can be punished with up to 5 years in prison and a fine of almost... Read More

One of the more bizarre features of Donald Trump’s second term in office has been the enormous effort he and his senior officials have... Read More

The recent RealClearWorld article, “The Case for Puerto Rican Statehood,” makes a familiar case: that Puerto Rico’s future... Read More

It’s hot in Havana. The summer’s electrical storms have arrived, lighting up the sky, while down on the ground we’ve been... Read More

In this episode of the ChinaPower Podcast, Ambassador Edgard Kagan joins us to unpack President Trump’s recent summit with President Xi... Read More

China’s latest Five-Year Plan signals that it has become more pessimistic about the global environment, seeing it as uncertain and... Read More

The sudden eruption of war in the Mideast Gulf has created dramatic new risks for global energy security. Read More

U.S. President Donald J. Trump has found himself in a mess, or perhaps it is better to say he has created one for himself.  Read More

When I interviewed Secretary Scott Bessent last Friday at the Reagan Library, he made a number of important points. Wartime points.   Read More

Operations by dozens of commandos and Mossad troops deployed along Iran’s northern border included killing of IRGC special operations... Read More

For 900 years, Beaufort Castle has dominated the villages and olive groves of South Lebanon.  Read More

Great powers rarely fail because they are unaware of their problems. More often, they fall apart because they misidentify or only partially... Read More

Last month, Donald Trump said he was ‘optimistic’ Christian pastor Ezra Jin would be freed from a Chinese prison. But now,... Read More

For too long, comfortable narratives about ‘diversity,’ ‘community cohesion,’ and ‘no evidence of two-tier... Read More

Polish, Spanish and French populists focus on clips of teenager’s dying moments and accuse UK of descending ‘into depths of the... Read More

As Armenia prepares for parliamentary elections on June 7, many observers view the vote as a potential turning point not only for the... Read More

Traffic is building in Dubai again, restaurant tables are filling up and flights have largely resumed. On the surface, life in the... Read More

A two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict could still be reachable in the wake of the Iran War.   Read More

Despite overwhelming archeological, literary-historical, and linguistic evidence, the Palestinians and their supporters claim Jews are not... Read More

The U.S. has imposed new sanctions on Cuba in the Trump administration's latest move to ramp up pressure on the Communist-led Caribbean... Read More

President Faye, who supports close cooperation with the west, is trying to sideline his fiery former... Read More

Recognising Somaliland would not deliver stability. It would entrench division, in Somalia and well beyond it. Read More

Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a fresh ceasefire which will boost Donald Trump’s broader efforts to strike a long-term peace deal... Read More

A passenger terminal is not a battlefield. An airport is not a military front. A civilian killed in Kuwait is not a statistic. It is a... Read More

A successful drone strike on an oil terminal in St Petersburg this week has dramatically illustrated the increasing damage that... Read More

Back in 1985, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev allegedly told French President Francois Mitterrand in a private conversation that the USSR was... Read More

The U.K.’s censorship regime indulges the idea that people who hold certain beliefs do not deserve to live freely — or at all. Read More

During President Joe Biden’s term in office, the United States witnessed the largest surge in immigration in the nation’s... Read More

The UAE’s decision to leave the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, while initially shocking markets, had in fact been... Read More