The New Silk Roads, or Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) are the most wide-ranging, far-reaching, multinational, multicultural economic development project of the 21st century, spanning Eurasia and beyond. There are no alternatives in the market – any market. The West,...
The five countries who shelled out the most money on their militaries in 2018 were the United States (surprise surprise), China, Saudi Arabia, India, and France. Combined, the military spending of these five countries makes up over 60 percent of...
On 30 September 2018 the USS Destroyer Decatur conducted freedom of navigation operations (FONOPs) within 12 nautical miles of a Chinese holding in the South China Sea (SCS). A People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy destroyer Lanzhou arrived to shadow the...
According to a new report from the Washington Post, China is inching forward with an expansion into the Middle East. Gerry Shih traveled to Tajikistan, a country in the heart of Asia that borders Afghanistan, China, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan. There,...
Over the past week, more decision makers levied complaints against Huawei, the leading telecommunication equipment provider and electronics heavyweight. Most recently, U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence headlined the Munich Security Conference where he labeled the Chinese company as a security threat....
As China and the U.S. continue their trade war, the effects can be felt globally. The top two economies are engaged in a tit-for-tat game of tariffsand regulations that has seen industries in both countries take losses and the situation...
When Polish authorities arrested a Huawei employee for espionage in December, under heavy US pressure, Central and Eastern Europe’s relationship with China flitted – albeit briefly – onto the world’s news screens. But when reporters honed in on the story,...
For the last five years, talking about China has meant talking, whether explicitly or not, about the “New Silk Road“. The Belt and Road Initiative is the great project (but it would be better to call it a “system”) that...
To write about the history of Iran’s nuclear program means recounting the story of a Nation which for over 70 years has witnessed a sequence of dramatic events including coup d’etats, revolutions, wars and repression. Four years after the coup...
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