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Jacob Helberg TikTok could be the biggest foreign intelligence operation in U.S. history. It’s time for Congress to act. As the war rages between Israel and Hamas, TikTok’s proliferation of anti-Israel content has reignited the debate about whether the platform should be legal in the United States. While …

Harrison Kass During war games in 2005, the $6 billion-plus USS Ronald Reagan was sunk. By whom? A single, relatively low-tech, diesel-powered Swedish submarine — the HMSM Gotland. In the exercise, the Gotland was able to sneak past the Ronald Reagan’s passive sonar defenses, land multiple virtual torpedo …

Dov Sakheim There was far less to the Biden-Xi APEC meeting than either man was willing to acknowledge. President Joe Biden was, in that quaint British expression, “cock-a-hoop” over what he considered a successful summit meeting with China’s Xi Jinping. Biden claimed that the two men had made …

The Middle East will emerge from the Israel-Hamas war having changed profoundly. In a rare show of unity, Middle Eastern leaders gathered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on November 11 to condemn Israel’s military bombardment of Gaza in a joint summit of the Arab League and the Organization of …

Nickolas Gvosadev If the United States can harness the disruptive impacts of both technological change and geopolitical competition, it can regenerate its economic capacity and its leadership of the community of free nations. The COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine mark the end of the post-Cold …

Brian Blankenship Across numerous administrations, the need for allied burden-sharing has been a constant refrain in U.S. foreign policy. A recent US president once complained that Washington’s allies do not pay their fair share for defense. “Free riders aggravate me,” he stated bitterly. “You have to pay your …

Gen. Shashi Asthama The asymmetric, irregular, dirty war triggered by the brutal terror attack by Hamas on Israel on October 07, 2023, targeting innocent civilians and children calls for global condemnation. A violent response by Israel using all its military might is on, which was an expected reaction, …

Kester Klomegah In this insightful interview, Kester Kenn Klomegah this November talked at considerable length with Dr. Israel Nyaburi Nyadera, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the Egerton University in the Republic of Kenya and Expert at the Valdai Discussion Club, over aspects of the current geopolitical …

Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday, Nov.15, had a candid and in-depth exchange of views on strategic and overarching issues critical to the direction of China-U.S. relations and on major issues affecting world peace and development, Xinhua informs. The meeting was held at …