European impact. Shares of European automakers dropped substantially following the Trump administration’s announcement of 25 percent tariffs on imports from Mexico, a key production hub for many ...

Reaching out to Moscow. Abkhaz political figure Badra Gunba, who is running for president of the breakaway Georgian region, held talks in Moscow with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak.

The modernization of China’s military over the past few years has raised justifiable questions over whether Beijing can someday challenge the U.S.-led international order. But the answer to that ...

Iran and nukes. Top commanders of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps asked Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to lift the fatwa (or religious decree) against the country’s development of ...

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Over the past year, Kuwait has undertaken a massive campaign to revoke citizenship based on a decree by the ruling emir, Sheikh Meshal Al Ahmad Al Jaber to reorganize the country’s Nationality Law.

Historically, nations did not conduct themselves without aligning with or getting their bearings in relation to a power system that drove the world, an anchor. This was the case, for example, in the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term has begun with a clear intent to reshape U.S. foreign policy. His aggressive use of tariffs against China – and the threat of tariffs against allies like ...

In my books “The Next 100 Years” and “The Storm Before the Calm,” I introduced a model of U.S. history consisting of political cycles and socio-economic cycles – the former tracking presidential ...

Retaliation. China announced that it will impose tariffs of 15 percent on U.S. coal and liquefied natural gas and 10 percent on U.S. crude oil, agricultural machinery and certain vehicles in response ...

The United States’ goal is to preserve national security, economic well-being and internal stability in a world filled with countries pursuing the same ends, inevitably leading to competition and, at ...

Russian weapons. India signed a contract with Russia to purchase anti-ship cruise missiles, the Indian Defense Ministry said. The ministry added that the weapons will increase the combat capabilities ...