Commentary / World Mar 31, 2020

A virus to kill populism, or make it stronger?

Will the pandemic makes or break the populist leaders that the last global crisis gave rise to?

World | ANALYSIS Aug 22, 2019

Trump's snub of Denmark over Greenland shows disregard for a model U.S. ally

President Donald Trump is coming to Europe. And not for the first time, he has embarrassed a U.S. ally and reached out to Russia's Vladimir Putin before even boarding a plane. Trump's abrupt decision to cancel a state visit to Denmark planned for Sept. 2 ...

World Aug 31, 2018

Anything but America: Conflicted China struggles to break the superpower mold

What struck Wang Wen about Antarctica — beyond the brutality of the cold — was the scale of U.S. operations in such an inhospitable environment and the American flag fluttering by the sign that marks the geographic South Pole. Observing the academic mission of hundreds ...

Asia Pacific / Politics Jun 2, 2018

Modi threads path between rising China and an uncertain U.S. at first Shangri-La Dialogue appearance

U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis described India as the "fulcrum" of security in the Indo-Pacific region as he traveled this week to an annual security conference in Singapore, attended for the first time by an Indian leader. But if Mattis was hoping that Prime Minister ...

World / Politics Jun 1, 2018

Trump's art of unpredictability has foreign leaders concerned

As a businessman, Donald Trump saw strength in his willingness to keep multiple balls in the air and change approach as they fell. In international relations, that unpredictability may be proving a liability. In recent days, Trump's sudden policy reversals on everything from tariffs to ...

Asia Pacific May 8, 2018

Chinese missiles are transforming balance of power in the skies

For a quarter century, the U.S. and its allies owned the skies, fighting wars secure in the knowledge that no opponent could compete in the air. As tensions with Russia and China surge, that's no longer the case. Rapid technological progress in China's aerospace industry, ...

Commentary / World May 9, 2016

Turkey's last shreds of balance are disappearing

An increasingly radical Recep Tayyip Erdogan is forcing out the last of the team of smart and qualified people he brought in to run Turkey with him.

Commentary / World Mar 25, 2016

There's a better way to secure our airports

Rather than add another layer of baggage and body screens, the aviation industry should emulate the security measures employed by Israel's Ben Gurion airport.

Commentary / World Mar 22, 2016

Not time to normalize with Russia

The West shouldn't reengage with President Vladimir Putin until Russia stops posing a threat to Ukraine.

Commentary / World Mar 8, 2016

Stop thinking 'reformers vs. conservatives' in Iran

The rest of the world may be confused, but for Tehran's business community and cafe-loving urbanites, it's pretty clear who won Iran's recent parliamentary election: They did.