Americas
Be Careful What You Wish For: Multi-Polarity Advocates Will Yearn For Pax-Americana
The need for national leaderships to rally towards countering geopolitical multi-polarity in the face of unfolding consequences stemming from the correlation of systemic regional...
Fentanyl’s Shadow War: Navigating the Geopolitical Labyrinth of Addiction
In the contemporary geopolitical theater, the fentanyl crisis emerges as a clandestine battleground in the strategic duel between the United States and China, a...
When Gangs Call All the Shots
Taking the government to ransom by a band of marauding criminal gangs is an unheard-of phenomenon, in contemporary international society. Similarly, it is rarer...
Sun Tzu’s Art of War is What Trump Needs
Since my last article on the trade war in April, many have asked whether America or China would win the war. I have no...
The Perfect Conditions Created by Trump for the Rise of China
The post-WW2 US-led liberal global order is crumbling before our eyes and Otto von Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies, “We live in a wondrous...
The Internal and External Implications of the Colombian Elections
First, the good news. Colombia went to the polls last weekend and did so largely peacefully. Not only this but, as should be the...
The Trump Effect: The Epitome of the Incoherence of the Incoherence1
Following the ineffectiveness of the League of Nations in maintaining order and peace in the world, the United Nations was established on October 24,...
Strategic Planning in the 21st Century
There is a broad consensus among pundits, experts and strategic thinkers that the international order is in transition, if not in disarray, due to...
Make China Weak Again
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer are planning a trip to Beijing for trade discussions. This apparent “truce” came after...
Are We Ready for the Red Pill?
It took me a week to gather myself to write this. I was so disturbed by the news that US, Britain and France decided...
US Last Efforts to Keep its Presence in the South China Sea
After a series of accidents involving US 7th Fleet based in Japan, the latest FONOP in the South China Sea conducted by USS Hopper...
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Central Asia
Central Asia: A Battleground of Economic and Energy Rivalry among Global Powers
Central Asia, previously underestimated, has now become a focal...
Geopolitics
China’s Strategic Canal in Cambodia May Cause Regional Destabilization
A Chinese-backed canal project aims to connect the Cambodian...
Diplomacy
International Cooperation and Science Diplomacy for Plant Health
Observed worldwide, international days and weeks initiated by the...
Geopolitics
China-Russia-Iran Joint Naval Exercise in the Gulf of Oman: What Is Its Impact?
In the dynamic landscape of global politics, the recent...
Technology
AI Fighter Jets: Skynet or Strategic Supremacy?
The recent milestone achieved by the US Air Force,...