On April 2, 2025—a date President Trump proclaimed “Liberation Day”—the administration announced the most sweeping tariff hike since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, the 1930 law best remembered for ...

Over the March 22 weekend, it was reported that the China Ship Scientific Research Centre (CSSRC) and its affiliated State Key Laboratory of Deep-sea Manned Vehicles have developed a ship able to cut ...

On March 22, the USS Spruance, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, left Naval Base San Diego heading south towards the U.S.-Mexico border. A week prior, the USS Gravely also deployed to ...

The shutdown of Cobre Panamá—one of the largest copper mines globally—has become a cautionary tale of how political risk can undermine significant investments from Western mining companies. Developed ...

Japan’s heavy investment in space capabilities, coupled with the importance of space in supporting U.S. power projection in the region, has contributed to space becoming a strategic pillar of the U.S.

Brazil is the world’s seventh-most populous country and the largest economy in Latin America. Yet despite vast opportunities for economic development and global engagement, Brazil’s educational ...

On March 28 at 12:50 am local time, disaster struck war-torn Myanmar in the form of a 7.7-magnitude earthquake, the strongest to hit Southeast Asia in decades. This “once-in-a-century” earthquake was ...

The comprehensive report from the bipartisan National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (NSCEB) delivers a “sobering, even frightening,” conclusion: that China is quickly ascending to ...

For years, analysts have discussed cyber operations in the context of “hybrid warfare” or as a form of “gray-zone tactics.” However, this use of cyberspace is typically depicted as an alternative to ...

In 2021, Vietnam began expanding some of its small- and medium-sized outposts in the Spratly Islands through dredging and landfill. As of now, that effort has resulted in over 2,200 acres of new land ...

Fans of soccer (or football, as the rest of the world calls it) are familiar with the term “own goal,” which refers to a player scoring a point for the opposing team by sending the ball into their own ...

On Wednesday, March 26, the Trump administration announced another tariff hike in the name of countering trade practices that impair U.S. national security. The White House announced a 25 percent ...