Category: Foreign Policy

There had been an outrage in Washington when Chinese ships sailed near the Arctic last autumn, even though they had broken no rules and crossed no borders. 

The US reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukraine has marked a significant transformation in US foreign policy during 2022.

Japan will double its defense spending in the face of emerging threats by China, North Korea and Russia, and may even build a new aircraft carrier, but it it may be feeding the dragon it wants to defend itself from as well.

American basketball star Brittney Griner has been freed after being detained by the Russians for ten months after her conviction on drug smuggling charges. The US exchanged her for Viktor Bout, who was serving a 25-year sentence in the United States for, among other charges, conspiracy to kill Americans.

Fifty-two-year-old Paul Whelan, an American corporate security director and former US Marine has been left behind in Russia by the current administration to continue serving his 16-year sentence at hard labor in a Russian prison camp. Who is he, and what did he do to get there?

After the meeting with US President Joe Biden, France is spearheading another conference to speak with Ukrainian allies and see how they can work together in bridging the gap this winter season.

US President Joe Biden had proudly announced that gas prices had reached their lowest levels in the past two years at $3.40 per allow, “the lowest since early February and lower than when Putin invaded Ukraine.”

Prisoners in Ethiopia have experienced a long history of abuse and mistreatment, and new witness testimony and evidence show the brutal treatment of Tigrayans in Ethiopia to the point where this can be considered genocide.

A congressman involved with military innovation this week said the US must prove to Beijing that it can stop China if President Xi Jinping were to risk an invasion across the Taiwan Strait in an attempt to bring Taiwan under Chinese control.

As Iran stalls on reviving the JCPOA, the US and other superpowers are under pressure to find other ways to prevent nuclear activity.

Ukraine’s unwarranted reaction to a deadly missile detonation in Poland could undermine its standing as the war winds down.

North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile toward its East waters on Thursday, hours after it threatened to take ‘more severe’ military action against the United States to ensure the security of its East Asian allies South Korea and Japan.