China has entered a deflationary cycle, exposing stark economic disparities amid slowing growth and cautious policy changes. China has been facing ongoing deflation, with prices declining for six ...

Domestic challenges in China are leading to a modest rethink of Southeast Asia’s economic and geopolitical strategies. Children at a China-ASEAN Expo in September 2024 view models of future low-carbon ...

Pierre Boussel is a French columnist and researcher specializing in the Arab world. Based in North Africa since 1999, he studies geopolitical issues and works on anticipating the extremist threat.

President-elect Trump’s proposed tariff increases may yield short-term gains but will also harm consumers and industries in the long term. As Donald Trump prepares ...

The president-elect’s geopolitical ambitions, blending boldness and controversy, reflect historical patterns of strategic U.S. expansion. The United States has a ...

Dr. Amatzia Baram is a Middle East Forum Writing Fellow, as well as a professor emeritus at the Department of the History of the Middle East and Director of the Centre for Iraq Studies at the ...

Urs Schöttli is a columnist for Die Neue Zürcher Zeitung, a Swiss newspaper, and is also an independent advisor on Asian affairs. He previously served as the paper’s correspondent in Delhi, Hong Kong, ...

Increasingly frequent incidents of deliberate underwater sabotage targeting critical fiber optics, power cables and pipelines raise significant global security concerns. In the early hours of November ...

European bonds could shift fiscal power to Brussels, potentially destabilizing the European Union. The European Central Bank could act as a guarantor for bonds issued ...

Dr. James Jay Carafano explains how the Trump administration is poised to swiftly reassert U.S. influence in the Middle East, aiming to rebalance the region’s dynamics in favor of its key allies. Read ...

Dr. Rudolf G. Adam is an author and a former diplomat, speechwriter and intelligence official, and an expert in security, arms control and nuclear strategy. Dr. Adam served as a diplomat for almost 40 ...

Teresa Nogueira Pinto is an African affairs expert. She earned her PhD in global studies from the department of social and human sciences at Nova University in Lisbon with a thesis entitled ...