Op-ed

Qin Qan As residents of the same world, we should and can listen to each other, narrow our gap in perceptions of the world, and explore a way to get along based on mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation. The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party …

Alexander Langlois The fortunate reality is that neither actor desires a major escalation on their disputed border. In a turbulent year for both Israel and Lebanon, one would assume the two countries would work to avoid additional crises at all costs. Rather, Tel Aviv and Beirut are opting …

David Goldman It is simply too late to try to suppress China. The United States must either spend seriously on research and development, along with industrial policy, or it will lose the race for twenty-first-century technological supremacy. Western media, for the most part, has ignored a remarkable array …

Gregg Priddy  It simply does not make sense for the United States to make huge concessions to Saudi Arabia in the form of a formal security guarantee in response to concerns about China or the desire for Saudi-Israeli normalization. While President Joe Biden termed the idea of Saudi-Israel …

Eng. Saleem Al Batayneh In Webster’s Dictionary of Political Terms, political reform is defined as a process of modifying the form of governance within a state and its existing political framework, aiming to shift from a culture of submission to one of participation. The challenge of modernizing Jordan’s …

The symbolism of the meetings between Kissinger, the national security advisor to former President Richard Nixon at the time, and the Chinese Prime Minister at the time Zhou Enlai, stemmed from the many stages of hostility between the two parties, as well as paving the way for a …

Kiev followed up with an official letter to the UN’s International Maritime Organization spelling out a new maritime corridor passing through Romania’s territorial waters and exclusive maritime economic zone in the north-western part of the Black Sea, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar, Indian Ambassador and prominent international observer. Evidently, Kiev acted …

Monster trends responding to new emerging circumstances worldwide arise slowly from the deep sanctum of the global economic behaviorism of humankind and become giant monsters, forcing unimaginable new changes that alter the course of human endeavors and impact all from top to bottom of humanity. Recent examples include …

By Eng. Saleem Al Batayneh “Why did you leave the horse alone?” This is the title of a poetry collection by the poet Mahmoud Darwish, from which I borrowed a poetic verse for this article (“Houses die when their inhabitants depart”). “Why did you leave the horse alone?” …