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Daily Memo: China’s Third-Quarter Economic Results

Slow growth. China’s gross domestic product grew by 4.6 percent year over year in the third quarter, the slowest pace of Chinese economic growth since early 2023. According to figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics, industrial output increased by 5.4 percent last month and overall fixed-asset investment grew by 3.4 percent from January […]

Europe’s Economic Outlook: Past Changes, Future Problems

The economic news from Europe over the past month has been bleak. Throughout the eurozone, gross domestic product is either stagnant or in decline....

Daily Memo: Erdogan Meets With Iraqi Kurdistan Leader, Arab League Chief

Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan. The president of Iraq's Kurdish region, Nechirvan Barzani, arrived in Ankara on Wednesday. He met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip...

Syria and the Israel-Iran War

As the conflict between Israel and Iran continues to heat up, Syria is the strategic tract of land caught in the middle. For Iran,...

Daily Memo: Israel Targets Beirut, North Korea’s New Recruits

In the crosshairs again. The Israel Defense Forces resumed airstrikes on Beirut after a six-day hiatus. The IDF said it struck a Hezbollah underground...

Russia’s Strategy to Revitalize the CIS

Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted in Moscow the leaders of the other countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States. According to his...

Daily Memo: Canada-India Spat, North Korea Severs Ties

Widening rift. Canada expelled six Indian diplomats, including India’s high commissioner to Ottawa, after identifying them as persons of interest in the murder in...

The Rise and Fall of Hezbollah

The rise of Hezbollah began in the early 1980s. Following the success of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini sought to export the...

Daily Memo: China’s Warning Exercise, Israel’s Ammo Shortage

Surrounded. China’s military conducted one-day joint force exercises known as Joint Sword-2024B to the north, south and east of Taiwan. Officially, the drills were...

Russia’s Deliberately Unclear Strategy for Iran

Readers have no doubt noticed that much of my writing over the past two-and-a-half years has focused on Russia. Some of the reasons for...

Daily Memo: Takeaways From ASEAN Summit

Thaw in relations. During a meeting with Australia's prime minister on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Laos, Chinese...

Gaming Out Israeli and Iranian Retaliation

The Israeli Security Cabinet convened on Oct. 10 to decide how it will retaliate against Iran’s recent missile barrage. There’s reason to believe it's...

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