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Chinese Diplomats Behaving Badly
Minxin Pei, Project Syndicate At a time when China’s reputation is suffering and its relationship with the United States is in freefall,...


COVID-19 pandemic to transform China-Africa relations
Chiponda Chimbelu, DW The coronavirus outbreak has revealed cracks in the China-Africa dynamic. Gone are the days of Chinese big loans...


China and India Move to Defuse Tensions After Clashes in the Himalayas
Steven Lee Myers, The New York Times The confrontations between troops along their shared border led to injuries and the most serious...


Foreign Policy By Example
Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs Crisis at home makes the United States vulnerable abroad. Read the full article HERE


The overmilitarization of American foreign policy
Robert M. Gates, Foreign Affairs The United States must recover the full range of its power - U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to...


“Mask Diplomacy” and Understating China’s Confucian Strategy in International Relations
Punsara Amarasinghe, Modern Diplomacy The unexpected situation erupted in the West before coping with the coronavirus was followed by...


UN: Libya's warring sides agree to restart ceasefire talks
Al-Jazeera Delegates from the rivals, LNA troops and GNA fighters, will conduct truce talks on video calls because of coronavirus. Read...


New Russian policy allows use of atomic weapons against non-nuclear strike
Vladimir Isachenkov, The Associated Press/Defense News President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday endorsed Russia’s nuclear deterrent policy,...


The Artemis Accords and the Next Generation of Outer Space Governance
David P. Fidler, Council on Foreign Relations On May 15, NASA announced the Artemis Accords, conceived as a set of bilateral agreements...


The East Fails Iran
Alex Vatanka, Foreign Policy Tehran pinned its economic hopes on China, India, Japan, and South Korea. But those countries have largely...


China and America Are Heading Toward Divorce
Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times The real story is that China’s standing in America today is lower than at any time since Tiananmen...


China could shape any result in its favor by putting off the WHO investigation until after pandemic
James Griffiths, CNN More than 100 countries had signed onto a resolution calling for an independent probe into the origins of the...


The New World Disorder
Economist Staff, The Economist If America pulls back from global institutions, other powers must step forward. Read the full article HERE


The Pandemic’s Geopolitical Aftershocks Are Coming
Tom McTague, The Atlantic Western capitals aren’t just worried about the risk of a resurgence in coronavirus cases. Read the full article...


The Pandemic’s Geopolitical Aftershocks Are Coming
Tom Mctague, The Atlantic Western capitals aren’t just worried about the risk of a resurgence in coronavirus cases. Read the full article...


China’s Balkan investments are paradoxically speeding region’s EU integration
David Felsen and Dennis Feltwell, Balkan Insight If the EU suddenly seems more interested than it was in integrating the Western Balkans,...


Oil Becomes a Risky Game for Saudis
Karen Elliott House, Wall Street Journal President Trump is playing a tense poker game with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Lower...


Interpreting China’s ‘Wolf-Warrior Diplomacy‘
Zhiqun Zhu, The Diplomat What explains the sharper tone to China’s overseas conduct recently? Read the full article HERE #China #US...


Turkey's aid diplomacy
Hilal Kaplan, Daily Sabah “On one hand, Turkey is dealing with the coronavirus pandemic on a national scale, it is also consolidating its...


EU offers more aid, membership to Balkans in riposte to China, Russia
Robin Emmott, Reuters The European Union’s 27 leaders on Wednesday gave their “unequivocal support” for the six Balkan countries to...
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