Category: Politics

Recent breaches of Palau's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) prompted President Surangel Whipps, Jr. to call on the United States to increase the frequency of navy patrols near the small Pacific Island Country's maritime borders. There's been no comment from the Pentagon ...

Philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates met with Xi Jinping last week, the first time in years that the Chinese president had held a one-on-one session with a Western business leader. The meeting itself was largely unremarkable but that didn't stop ...

The Global South faces dual existential crises: speeding up development to match growing population rates while trying not to become climate roadkill. Both are worsened by a broken international development financing system increasingly hijacked by geopolitics. This week’s Summit for a New ...

Bob Pickard, the former head of communications at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in Beijing, is now back home in Vancouver after he accused the Communist Party of China (CPC) of secretly interfering in the bank's operations. Pickard made the accusation in ...

In the afternoons when I would reach for the air conditioner’s remote control, unable to go on without turning on the cooling machine, I grieve a little. I know it didn’t used to be this hot. I remember playing outside as a child at this hour. The ...

The White House is defending its seemingly contradictory response to last week's Wall Street Journal report that claimed China is building a new base in Cuba to spy on the United States. When the report first came out, National Security Council Spokesperson ...

There is an emerging consensus among prominent Mideast scholars in China that Beijing is now the ideal mediator to help broker a settlement to the seemingly intractable Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Their confidence (which some might see as hubris) is rooted in the ...

U.S. and European automakers are rejoicing over the 30% plunge in cobalt prices this year, providing relief for one of the costliest elements needed to power electric vehicles. But what's good for Tesla, Ford and VW is not aligned with the ...

Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, arrived in Beijing for a four-day visit that will see meetings with President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang. The trip (Abbas’s first visit to Beijing since 2017) is being framed as an attempt to ...

U.S. National Security Council Spokesperson John Kirby was adamant last Thursday when he refuted as "inaccurate" a Wall Street Journal report that China was planning to build a new spy base in Cuba. A few days later, though, the White House ...

Mideast diplomacy will be back at the top of the agenda in Beijing this week when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas arrives in the Chinese capital on Tuesday for a four-day visit. The Palestinian leader is reportedly going to see if ...

Saudi Arabia's Energy Minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, delivered a blunt message to the United States on Sunday about the Kingdom's increasingly close ties with China.  The prince told an audience of 3,000 attendees on the opening day of the 10th ...