Taiwan Casts a Long Shadow Over Trump’s Summit With Xi
There is a ritual to superpower summitry — the handshakes choreographed for cameras, the communiqués burnished to diplomatic smoothness, the […]
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How Iran Has Been Studying Lessons from the War in Ukraine
There is a phrase used inside certain NATO planning cells that has become something of a grim shorthand for a
Trump’s Hormuz Blockade: The High-Stakes Gamble That Could Ignite a Global Energy Crisis
When Truth Social Became the Most Consequential Feed on Earth It arrived, as so many seismic shifts in American foreign
Vance’s ‘Final Offer’ in Islamabad: How the U.S.-Iran Talks Failed—and What It Means for the World
By Nathaniel Cross, Senior International Affairs Analyst and Contributor to The New York Times, Forbes, and Foreign Affairs. The sun
The Weight of Islamabad: What JD Vance’s Iran Gamble Tells Us About America — and the World
He boarded Air Force Two at Joint Base Andrews on a Friday morning and, in doing so, stepped into history.
US-Iran Talks in Pakistan Face a Hormuz Crisis That Won’t Wait
The ink was barely dry on a fragile two-week truce when the world’s most dangerous oil chokepoint stayed exactly as
A Wait in the Strait: Why Shipping Giants Are Still Frozen Despite the Hormuz Cease-Fire
Shipping companies are reacting with extreme caution as Hormuz cease-fire terms remain uncertain. Here’s why the Strait of Hormuz standstill
How Iran Should End the War: A Deal Tehran Could Take
The Strait of Hormuz is bleeding the world. Tehran still holds cards — but the clock is running out to
Donald Trump and the art of bad diplomacy
The scene was meant to project dominance. As President Trump returned to Washington from a weekend in Florida, he boasted
WTO Reform Talks Collapse Over US-Brazil Stand-Off: A Setback for Global Trade
Night the Rules Ran Out Just before dawn on Monday in Yaoundé, Cameroon, bleary-eyed diplomats shuffled out of a cavernous
No Kings Protests 2026: Millions March in What Could Be the Largest Day of Demonstrations in U.S. History
Millions joined the No Kings protests on March 28, 2026, across all 50 states and a dozen countries, targeting Trump’s
The Strategic Shift: Why India is Frustrated by Pakistan’s Sudden Mediatory Role in the US-Iran Conflict
Islamabad’s Unlikely Ascent to Center Stage The Persian Gulf has always been a chessboard where empires and regional powers jostle