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The long-awaited sanctions against Iranian oil exports took effect earlier this week on Tuesday, a month after US President Donald Trump announced that he would be withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal. The new sanctions have loomed over the oil industry since their announcement, as many experts disagreed on the market ramifications. Although the White […]
The South China Sea has been the scene of heightening tensions between China and a number of nations in recent years, thanks to their claims of sovereignty over the entirety of the waterway placing their official policy directly at odds with international law. The United States — which boasts the most powerful Navy in the […]
Over the past few weeks, the United States military has been participating in the NATO training operation, Trident Juncture. With 50,000 troops from 30 different nations involved, Trident Juncture is meant to demonstrate a high level of interoperability and cooperation among NATO allies and other friendly nations in the Arctic, where Russia’s military has enjoyed […]
The most successful element of Russia’s 2016 influence campaign pertaining to the presidential election was not getting Donald Trump elected — it was convincing the American people that Russian influence efforts are a partisan issue. Ever since then, analysts attempting to make objective assertions about the ways Russian influence efforts can affect the American public […]
The problem with foreign policy and geopolitics has never been about the mechanisms of international relations. For all intents and purposes, our global powers interact quite a bit like patrons at a crowded bar: trying to manage polite dialogue with familiar strangers, all the while maintaining closely held ulterior motives. That guy in the corner […]
On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed charges against two more members of the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) relating to a concerted effort to steal commercial aviation secrets from U.S. based companies. This marks the third time that members of the Chinese government have been directly implicated in espionage and the theft […]
Chinese President Xi Jingpin elevated the aggressive rhetoric between China and the United States last week when he reportedly told his top military advisers to prepare for war in the South China Sea. The speech, which was made during an inspection tour of China’s Southern Theatre Command, did not directly reference the United States in […]
Just days after signing economic cooperation agreements with China, Japan signed a currency swap deal with India, valued at $75 billion. According to Bloomberg-Quint, this new agreement will help bolster the rupee, which has seen a significant loss in value during the recent months. The deal should also help India access foreign capital and foreign […]
As President Trump’s trade war with China continues, weakening relations between the two powerful states have already begun exacerbating tensions between U.S. and Chinese interests in other realms of geopolitics. Diplomatic spats about how the United States views Taiwan, and a looming standoff between the Chinese and the U.S.-led Pacific forces that challenge China’s claimed […]
For the first time in modern history, Cuba has to import sugar due to several poor sugarcane harvests in a row. According to a report from Agence France Presse (AFP), the former world leader in sugarcane production has slowly seen a decline of its cash crop ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union. During […]
In a move furthering its influence around the globe, China has signed a new memorandum of understanding (MOU) regarding free trade with the leadership of Palestine. According to Reuters, the Chinese government announced the new arrangement via their website on Wednesday. During a recent trip to Palestine, China’s vice commerce minister Qian Keming met with […]
On Saturday, President Donald Trump announced to the world that the United States would be pulling out of a Cold War era missile treaty first established between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1987. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty had a specific aim: to ban the development and deployment of conventional or […]
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