Geopolitics

In 2021, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) completed its defensive “smart wall” between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Equipped with cutting-edge technology, the wall was designed to detect any security breach. Read More.

The Chinese Constitution guarantees freedom of religious belief, at least on paper. A report by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) says communist authorities in China have instituted new regulations forcing state-controlled religious organizations to incorporate communist ideology into every facet of religious life. Read More.

On Oct. 1, Alejandro Arcos Catalan became the mayor of Chilpancingo, capital of Guerrero state. It’s a city plagued by two rival drug gangs: the Ardillos and the Tlacos. On Oct. 6, the new Mayor Arcos was found decapitated, his head atop a vehicle, with his body on the front passenger seat. Read More.

Communists murdered about 100 million people — all noncombatants and all innocent. Read More.

Powerful thunderclaps from the Middle East, Ukraine and Sudan rumbled as a dire greeting to the opening UN General Assembly session in New York. Winds from ongoing but unresolved humanitarian crises the world over from Sudan to Syria and Somalia swirled. And a nervous atmosphere of widening conflicts, some still yet to happen, settled over assembled delegates. Read More.

President Joe Biden’s weak foreign policy decisions have “encouraged the advance of U.S. adversaries across the globe,” according to a devastating assessment on Sept. 23. Read More.

Presidents, Prime Ministers, Kings and potentates are converging in New York for the 79th annual General Assembly of the United Nations. As the 193 member states meet amid the pomp, splendor and promise of a renewed challenge to settle conflicts and solve humanitarian crises, which have stubbornly eluded diplomats over this past year of widening strife, there remain deep political divisions along historic, East/West, and emerging North/South geopolitical fault-lines. Read More.

While U.S. legacy media and Biden administration officials are caught in a Russia election interference time warp, former and independent intelligence analysts see China as the major external threat to the epochal 2024 U.S. showdown. Read More.

The world is entering a new more dangerous security phase; the winds of war which have been lashing parts of the planet for the past few years could well go to gale force and bring us to the verge of a global conflict. Though both the major land clashes in Ukraine and Gaza appear to be largely locked in bloody stalemate, these conflicts could easily escalate and spillover regionally. Read More.

It has been building before the eyes of most observers for over a decade, but only this past March did President Joe Biden sign a highly classified “Nuclear Employment Guidance” document that directs the Department of Defense to respond to “possible coordinated nuclear challenges from China, Russia and North Korea,” according to an Aug. 21 New York Times (NYT) article. Read More.

Instead of "liberating Taiwan" in the name of national territorial integrity, why has the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) not attempted to retake its lost territories that were seized by Russia, Taiwan's president asked. Read More.

The three-day visit of U.S. National Security advisor Jake Sullivan to Beijing had a clear message; “Don’t Rock the Boat.” Chinese/American relations remain very sensitive over trade tariffs, strategic issues, and Beijing’s continuing military threats to democratic Taiwan and the Philippines. Read More.

With the rushed “coronation” of Vice President Kamala Harris as the new Democrat Party presidential candidate following Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race, he is now effectively a Lame Duck president, so it is fair to begin to consider his legacy regarding U.S.-China relations. Read More.

Who remembers Libya? Who recalls how we became embroiled in this civil war only then to quickly lose interest? Read More.

The official news feeds of China’s propaganda outlets conveys the bland message that the Communist Party leadership has no preference on who wins the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Read More.