When Richard Nixon defied expectations and went to China in 1972, Henry Kissinger, his national security advisor, packed the president’s briefcase. Among Nixon’s reading materials was The Chinese Looking Glass, ...
Last December, Mahesh Odedara signed a contract to live and work for five years in a foreign country thousands of miles away from home and mired in a state of ...
The United States has dropped the ball on Iran. Had Washington come up with a comprehensive strategy to address Tehran’s destabilizing role in the Middle East, the spreading conflict between ...
Qatar, the small emirate on the Persian Gulf, has long enjoyed unmatched influence over Hamas, the ruling power in Gaza. It is now threatening to withdraw its services as a ...
A little shy of my teenage years, I made my first discoveries of the world outside the borders of my own country. The first of these came at Expo 67, ...
In the early hours of April 13, two minor miracles happened. First, in a remarkable display of technical prowess, Israel—with help from Britain, France, Jordan, and the United States—intercepted some ...
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In the early hours of April 19, Israel’s military struck deep inside Iran, at a military air base near Isfahan. Iran says it fended off a separate attack in Tabriz, ...
Matt Kroenig: Hi, Emma! Greetings from Singapore. I am here for a conference on weapons of mass destruction in the Indo-Pacific, so it has been pretty dark—with China’s massive nuclear ...
Even before Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles against Israel last weekend, U.S. officials had been urging China—a top Iranian trade partner—to use its influence to convince Tehran to ...
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