Tag: geopolitics

“Is it a hawkish thing for Trump?” “Is it a hawkish thing for Trump?” This irritating little sentence—or variations of it—has been the soundtrack of my life for the past ...

April 20, 2022, was a dark day for the United States in Oceania. On that day, China signed its first-ever security agreement in the South Pacific, with the Solomon Islands ...

Like Cinderella forced to leave the ball early, U.S. President Joe Biden had to cut short his May trip to the Indo-Pacific region, scrapping a historic visit to Papua New ...

Central Asian countries have always made a strong play for being the master of their own destinies. Policymakers in the region tout their ability to sit in the driver’s seat ...

Last month, China’s special representative for Eurasian affairs, Li Hui, visited Kyiv, Warsaw, Berlin, Paris, and Brussels with “a clear message”: European governments should view Beijing as an alternative to ...

Subsea cables carrying internet traffic connect the world by traveling through risky waters. That, as the world now knows, makes them vulnerable to geopolitically motivated harm. But the cables are ...

Next week’s long-awaited Quad summit was canceled after President Biden’s administration announced that he would be cutting short his trip to the Indo-Pacific. The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or more popularly, ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where China and Central Asia hold their first-ever summit, Australia cancels this month’s Quadrilateral Security Dialogue meeting, and Ghana secures an International Monetary Fund loan. ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Russia’s extension of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, the dissolution of Ecuador’s parliament amid impeachment hearings, and rising global temperature warnings ...

Liseby Elysé was born in 1953 on Peros Banhos, an island in the Chagos Archipelago. As she tells it, life was good on her Indian Ocean “paradise island”:Everyone had a ...