The Globalist

What kind of Russian occupation – as in Afghanistan? Iraq? Abkhazia? Chechnya? Imagining the day after a Russian conquest of Kyiv is not a pretty picture – also not for Vladimir Putin.

China’s goal isn’t cuddling up to Russia. It is preventing NATO from interfering in the Indo-Pacific.

Putin’s post-Soviet world remains a work in progress, but Africa already looms.

Are regional organizations, ASEAN and the AU, taking adequate responsibility to resolve conflicts?

Former Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev may be the last barricade blocking a confrontation between Russia and Kazakstan.

How the closure of the Memorial in Russia is a template for the kind of society Republicans want to build in the U.S.

The year when China was brought out of its shell — and the U.S. started learning about unsuccessful interventions.

The Chinese-dominated Pakistani port city of Gwadar — the crown jewel of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) — increasingly looks like a powder keg that has exploded.

Examining the parallels in the political style and performance of Angela Merkel and Barack Obama, the past decade’s transatlantic power couple.

The EU and the U.S. need to address the real technology competitiveness challenge, which is China.