Flooding in China. Chinese President Xi Jinping called on authorities to step up emergency responses to heavy rains that have already killed over a dozen people in the southwestern region of Chongqing and damaged 7,500 hectares of crops. Flooding and mudslides have affected more than 130,000 people in 19 districts and counties. Xi said China’s […]
Beijing retaliates. China imposed export controls on gallium and germanium, two minor metals used in everything from semiconductors to solar panels to sensors in...
Expansion. Ethiopia has formally asked to join the BRICS grouping of emerging economies ahead of the bloc's annual summit in August. Though Ethiopia has...
Given circumstances, I decided to combine my ongoing series on forecasting methods with current events in Ukraine. The source book is “Flashpoints: The Emerging...
Nagorno-Karabakh dispute. At a meeting of the Armenian community in Marseille, French President Emmanuel Macron pledged to apply more pressure on Azerbaijani President Ilham...
No breakthrough. The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan were in Washington on June 27, hosted by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, to...
With minimal fanfare, Australia is preparing to assume a greater leadership role in the Indo-Pacific region. Its plans are laid out in various national...
Georgian links. Representatives of the European Union, the United States and the United Kingdom arrived for talks in Georgia on Monday amid concerns that...
