We enter 2022 with the same hope that we had as we entered 2021: that the pandemic will end soon. This time, we will have even more vaccines and treatments for COVID-19. But we also have a new variant of the virus and the near certainty that there will be more. However this plays out, […]
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The defining feature of 2021 will be insularity. Countries will simply be too consumed with...
German downturn. Germany’s closely watched Ifo business confidence index fell in December for the sixth consecutive month amid COVID-19 uncertainty, supply chain bottlenecks and...
Appeal for calm. Foreign ministers from the leading industrial nations of the G-7 called on Russia to de-escalate military tensions on the border with...
For centuries, the power that controls the seas – the “World Ocean” – has successfully stymied continental rivals and dictated the rules of world trade. The...
Next week is Thanksgiving, a U.S. holiday that celebrates, and is celebrated with, food. This year, however, Americans are reckoning with rising food prices....
China and Taiwan. China has reportedly been cracking down on a surge of online speculation about a possible cross-strait conflict with Taiwan. Like many...
Two down, nine to go. China's longshot bid to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership has at least some backing within...
The decision by the Australian government to join a U.S.-British consortium to help construct a nuclear submarine capability enraged France, whose previous efforts to...
Energy bailout? Britain’s business secretary on Monday met with energy companies to discuss rising natural gas prices. The energy sector had earlier warned the...
The Geopolitics of the American President &