The United Arab Emirates presents itself to the outside world as a liberal and tolerant Muslim country. This isn’t far from the truth. The Maliki doctrine, Sunni Islam’s most tolerant school of jurisprudence, is the UAE’s official religious denomination. And in terms of its economic structure and social discipline, it resembles many advanced countries of […]
For centuries, the power that controls the seas – the “World Ocean” – has successfully stymied continental rivals and dictated the rules of world trade. The...
Anger boils over. Protests broke out across Europe over the weekend after governments announced new COVID-19 restrictions last week. In Vienna, roughly 40,000 people...
Chinese interference. Manila is accusing Beijing of sending three coast guard vessels to block Philippine supply ships from reaching Second Thomas Shoal, one of...
Xi-Biden summit. Details of the 3.5-hour videoconference between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping are coming out. No surprise, but the U.S....
