The current Chinese leader may be president for life, but that’s where the comparisons end.
Only now is the full power of what started in 2008 being felt.
South Korea wants to avoid a war, but reconciliation with the North is no panacea either.
Peripheral to the crisis on the Korean Peninsula, Japan is slowly building up military capabilities.
A battle for power is shaping up, and the stakes are extremely high.
How will Russia respond to the implied request to rein in the Iranians?
Never in the field of human conflict has such a limited military operation been threatened for so long.
Beijing will use what leverage it has to prevent the U.S. from taking a tougher stance on trade.
The battles that will urgently require these are the battles that nations must win.
One is coming to grips with its geographic constraints, the other is turning weakness into strength.
Dec. 27, 2017 “Merry Christmas” is a religious greeting that has become a secular one.
Dec. 20, 2017 In the Middle East, today’s successes can be tomorrow’s failures.
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