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Iranians have shown a willingness to pay a devastating price for political change, as protest has consistently been met by the Islamic Republic with violence and mass killing. The death…

China’s renewed construction at a little-known reef in the South China Sea is sharpening a deeper debate over whether US military power can still decisively roll back China’s expanding maritime…

The Cuban capital of Havana, where we are currently on a research trip, woke to an unfamiliar silence on January 5. As we drove through the city, no music drifted…

Beijing is reportedly set to give the green light for Chinese technology firms to import Nvidia’s H200 artificial intelligence (AI) chips, even as an industry heavyweight warns companies not to…

Mongolia growth hit 6.4% in 2025, driven by agriculture and mining rebounds, but inflation and uneven incomes left households worse off.

Mongolia growth hit 6.4% in 2025, driven by agriculture and mining rebounds, but inflation and uneven incomes left households worse off.

The Maduro regime was always likely to end abruptly. Reports that US forces encountered little resistance—and that Venezuela’s president had come to rely on Cuban security rather than his own…

TOKYO — Investors betting against a MAGA-fied Federal Reserve are rapidly getting used to disappointment. On Friday (January 9), as Fed Chair Jerome Powell has since detailed in a video…

 “India’s journey today is not merely about development; it is also a journey of psychological renaissance.” — Narendra Modi “Realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the greatest…

Imagine if what happened in Venezuela had happened to the United States. In the scenario, Washington has a longtime, totally compliant lap dog of a president in some Asian country,…