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In Germany, an Industrial Strategy in Disguise

At the end of October, Germany’s Federal Statistical Office reported that the economy flatlined in the third quarter of 2025. Growth for the year...

The UAE’s Quiet Militarization of the Red Sea

The Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group that comprises one side of the civil war in Sudan, recently took el-Fasher, the last important stronghold...

The Inevitability of Japan’s New Prime Minister

Sanae Takaichi’s election as the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party’s first female leader was a historic yet politically logical outcome. The LDP’s two-round leadership system...

George Answers Your Questions: US-China Trade War

The 2020s and Its Historic Shift: China Oct. 30, 2025 Question: In one of your videos you mentioned in passing that you suspect Trump's tariffs imposed...

Trump, Xi, and Managing Rivalry

The United States faces an imperative to establish a workable modus vivendi with China. For now, China is a near-peer competitor of the U.S....

A Shift in the Nuclear Order?

Following a visit with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Seoul had his approval to build a nuclear-powered...

The 2020s and Its Historic Shift: China

In 1984, the Chinese economy achieved an astounding growth rate of 15 percent. It declined after that and varied over the subsequent years but...

China’s Military Self-Critique

Last week, the PLA Daily, the official newspaper of China’s armed forces, published a lengthy and unusually candid article assessing the People’s Liberation Army’s...

Explaining the New US Military Posture in the Caribbean

In October, Washington deployed the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group from Europe to the southern Caribbean – a move that consolidates what...

Why Russia Could Withstand New Sanctions

On Oct. 22, the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions against Russian companies Rosneft and Lukoil, as well as several...

George Answers Your Questions: The United States, Venezuela, Cuba and the Caribbean

First, I must apologize for an error in last week’s piece. The Florida Straits are not the only exit from the Gulf of Mexico....

Why the Conflict in the Congo Can’t Stop

This week, the United States hosted a third round of talks to broker peace between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and M23, a...

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