In 2021, U.S. Navy Admiral Philip Davidson, then the commander of the Indo-Pacific Command, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services that Beijing had set a serious goal of ...

It took two years of war and tough negotiations to reach “phase one” of his peace plan: the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas and the return of the hostages. But to move from a cease-fire to a ...

Over the last few weeks, the Iranian regime has faced remarkable challenges—and displayed remarkable unity. Hundreds of thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets to protest the Islamic Republic ...

Ideally, that would be on American soil, with U.S. teams offering continuous support in designing implementable arrangements for the governance of Gaza and its reconstruction. The United States must ...

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung is pulling out all the stops to improve ties with Beijing. During a four-day state visit to China in early January, he snapped a selfie with Chinese leader Xi ...

Mussolini won early support from the large landowners of the Po Valley, and came to power at the invitation of King Victor Emmanuel III; Hitler allied himself with the army and big business to win the ...

A stablecoin could preserve dollar dominance—or shatter it.

In the first 50 years after India gained independence in 1947, New Delhi was deeply suspicious of Washington, which it saw as an imperial power not unlike those in Europe. It repeatedly criticized the ...

It was only seven months ago, in May, that Maduro and Russian President Vladimir Putin met at the Kremlin to sign a treaty on strategic partnership and cooperation that stated that Russia and ...

Venezuela is not Iraq. But much as the legacy of U.S. President George W. Bush became tied to Iraq’s fate, President Donald Trump’s legacy now depends in some measure on how events unfold in Venezuela ...

The Americanization of Greenland transcended brute imperial force in the Russian mold. Two years earlier, in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s showy military ouster of Venezuela’s leader, ...

At risk is the survival of any rules at all—and with them any constraints on the exercise of state power. Before countries renounced the right to war, first in the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact and then ...