Dickson Yeo At the basement floor of the Chinese National museum in Beijing, there’s a curated collection of China’s imperial history from antiquity to the fall of the Qing Dynasty. The basement is where a multitude of visitors from around the country gather, entry is free for foreigners. …

Shehab Al Makahleh The diminuendos behind the international order are in a process of mutability with data enabling; restraining countries and empowering others to be globally dominant. At present, the mounting economic and political prominence of information is affecting countries’ policies and primacies and how they brandish supremacy, …

James M. Dorsey The Middle East is barrelling towards a nuclear and ballistic missiles arms race. The race is being aided and abetted by a US policy that views the region through the dual prism of the need to stop in its tracks an aggressive, expansionary, and destabilizing …

President Trump closed out the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan with a wide-ranging Saturday press conference that was long on self-congratulation and short on details. Except, that is, for one big detail: he will allow American companies to sell technology to Huawei. Trump also confirmed that additional tariffs …

Abdolrasool Divsallar As US-Iran tensions are changing course beyond JCPOA and towards a possible military confrontation, the Russian factor is becoming more crucial. Russia’s Middle East policy is marked with balancing acts that secure the country’s role as an agile and effective balancing power. The fall of the …

Svi Megan Tensions in the Persian Gulf are growing significantly, mostly due to the effective sanctions mechanism that Washington is using against Iran. These restrictions have already caused significant problems for Tehran, since it has no way to bypass the American pressure. As a result, Iran is trying …

By Shehab Al Makahleh The United States and China are neck-to-neck in their trade war; many countries are going to be enmeshed in the two powers’ commercial conflict, regardless of any consequences or ramifications on world economy. The question is: What is the real reason for this war? …

Since 9/11, fear has become the basis for most of America’s foreign policy—and the lives of its citizens are worse because of it. In a recent interview with Axios, former National Security Advisor H. R.McMaster warned it was difficult “to overstate the threat of a nuclear North Korea,” …

Beijing is preparing its people for hardship and explaining the necessity of a protracted national struggle against Washington. There is little dispute that China engages in unfair and often predatory practices to protect and promote its domestic industries. Yet if the Trump administration’s diagnosis of U.S.-China economic relations …