Trucker strike. Approximately 1,000 South Korean truckers, angry about rising fuel costs, launched a strike in front of Hyundai Motors’ largest factory complex in Ulsan. They said they plan to curb shipments of raw materials for semiconductors that are produced in the city. The strike has totally suspended movement of containers at the Ulsan port […]
No resolution. Negotiations between Russia and Turkey to unlock Ukrainian grain exports through the Black Sea ended without a breakthrough. The secretary of Ukraine’s...
New military spending. Germany’s parliament approved a constitutional amendment that will unlock 100 billion euros ($107 billion) in military spending for the country. Approximately...
Downturn. Profits at China’s industrial corporations fell in April by 8.5 percent compared with the same period last year, the sharpest decline in two...
Fallout from Bucha killings. Ukrainian authorities on Saturday released photos and videos showing corpses lying on the streets of the town of Bucha near...
Russia-Ukraine talks. The Russian military said on Monday it would open humanitarian corridors in four Ukrainian cities – Kyiv, Mariupol, Kharkov and Sumy –...
Escalation. Early Thursday morning local time, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation in Donbass. He said the Russian armed forces would...
“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see,” Winston Churchill once quipped. Predicating expectations of the future on an understanding...
The Geopolitics of the American President