Chinese incentives. China approved a new plan to stabilize foreign investment in 2025 during a meeting of the State Council on Monday. Under the scheme, Beijing will fully implement its commitment to ...

Last week, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said Russia did not intend to get involved in the U.S. trade conflicts with Canada, Mexico and China, leaving the resolution of these ...

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.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants his country to reclaim its status as a regional power. Embodying an ideology often referred to as neo-Ottomanism, he envisions a Turkey that is more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...