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China’s Rise Under Trump: Tactical Windfall or Lasting Strategic Gain?

There may be few people who have done more to improve China’s image around the world than Donald Trump. What Beijing cou…
Between the Old and the New: Have the Arabs Stopped Reading History?

Eng. Saleem Al-Batayneh The most disturbing thing revealed by the Fourth Gulf War and its aftermath is not that it answe…
Canada Chooses to Fight Back: Ottawa Enters a Trade War With Washington

For more than three decades, Canada and the United States built one of the world’s most deeply integrated economic…
Lebanon’s Three Scenarios at Ali al-Taher Hill

Saad Ilyas Lebanon’s southern frontier is no longer merely hovering on the edge of escalation. It has entered a new phas…
Six Months Into Trump’s Iran War, America Is Trapped in Another Endless Conflict

Six months into America’s war with Iran, the conflict is beginning to resemble another version of the “forever wars” tha…
Qatar Expands Its Partnership with NATO

Qatar is pursuing two parallel tracks in an increasingly turbulent regional environment: diplomacy on the one hand and s…
SCO at 25—As an Election Observer

Farhat Asif Today 23 August 2026, citizens across Kazakhstan are electing the first Kurultai under the country’s new Co…
HCSS Fuel Security series | Fuel is no longer just an energy issue. It’s a security issue

HCSS – The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies The events of this year have made that abundantly clear. The war in …
Turkey, Israel and the Dangerous Vacuum in Post-Assad Syria

Dr. Yashwant Singh Abu al-Duhur matters less for what happened there on Tuesday, August 18, than for what it revealed. S…
India-Pakistan May 2025 Redux: More on the Mystery at Kirana Hills

Ankit Panda Thinking through new information about the May 2025 India-Pakistan clash. For this issue, I wanted to turn m…
China’s Strategic Plan for Space Superiority

Namrata Goswami China defines space superiority as achieving space logistics and infrastructure, and then using them for…
What’s Behind China’s Problematic Advance in Uruguay?

Evan Ellis Introduction In February 2026, Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi made a state visit to Beijing, signing numero…

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Qatar Expands Its Partnership with NATO

August 27, 2026

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SCO at 25—As an Election Observer

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Turkey, Israel and the Dangerous Vacuum in Post-Assad Syria

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