Op-ed

Hemant Adlakha Just a few days before President Trump was to arrive in Beijing as per Trump’s previous itinerary (March 31-April 2), the mood in China—as reflected on social media and in the media commentaries—was not at all in favor of a visit by Trump to the Chinese …

Lisdey Espinoza Pedraza By the time the results boards cleared in the early hours of 8 May 2026, the verdict was impossible to soften. Reform UK had seized over 1,400 council seats across England, taken control of 13 local authorities, and planted its flag in places that had …

Dr. Shehab Al-Makahleh There are wars conducted with missiles, drones, and precision-guided munitions, and then there are wars waged more quietly, more insidiously, against memory itself. The tragedy of Gaza today lies not merely in the pulverized skeletons of its streets, the collapse of its hospitals, the obliteration …

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that Russia immediately agreed to a proposal from US President Donald Trump to extend the ceasefire with Ukraineand carry out a prisoner-of-war exchange. “We immediately agreed to this. Moreover, in my view, it is a justified proposal, motivated by considerations of …

Rameen Siddigi Trump arrives in Beijing on May 14. The summit was originally scheduled for March, then postponed because the US got embroiled in a war in the Middle East that nobody fully planned for and nobody has yet fully ended. That delay, accidental as it was, turned …

Dr. Dan Steinbok Israeli military aggression has “reshaped both the physical and ecological landscape” of southern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese report (which does not consider the impacts of Israel’s latest barrage of attacks this spring). In her foreword, Lebanon’s minister for the environment Tamara el Zein notes: …

Federico Verri The Strait of Hormuz has rarely been spoken about outside of emergency language: naval escorts, insurance rates, oil prices, missile ranges, LNG disruption and freedom of navigation. We should have the former, but we need the latter as well. Framing the issue through that vocabulary is …

The Kremlin stated that the U. S. is eager to finalize a peace deal to end the Ukraine war, but complex issues make a resolution far off, and talks are currently on hold. For over four years, Russian forces have struggled to seize the entire Donbas region in …

President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw some U. S. troops from Germany and his reaction to a recent conflict with Iran have raised concerns about America’s relationships with its allies. As the U. S. and Iran move toward a potential resolution of their conflict, fears grow among traditional …