Chinese incentives. China approved a new plan to stabilize foreign investment in 2025 during a meeting of the State Council on Monday. Under the scheme, Beijing will fully implement its commitment to ...

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants his country to reclaim its status as a regional power. Embodying an ideology often referred to as neo-Ottomanism, he ...

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Reaching out to Moscow. Abkhaz political figure Badra Gunba, who is running for president of the breakaway Georgian region, held talks in Moscow with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak.

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Over the past year, Kuwait has undertaken a massive campaign to revoke citizenship based on a decree by the ruling emir, Sheikh Meshal Al Ahmad Al Jaber to reorganize the country’s Nationality Law.

The modernization of China’s military over the past few years has raised justifiable questions over whether Beijing can someday challenge the U.S.-led international order. But the answer to that ...

Iran and nukes. Top commanders of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps asked Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to lift the fatwa (or religious decree) against the country’s development of ...

The Middle East is an Arab-majority region, but with the exception of a 200-year period that began in the early 7th century, Arabs have never been the dominant power ...

In my books “The Next 100 Years” and “The Storm Before the Calm,” I introduced a model of U.S. history consisting of political cycles and socio-economic cycles – the former tracking presidential ...

(click to enlarge) U.S. tariffs on Canada and Mexico, if implemented, will likely disrupt the global aluminum market. A similar pattern emerged during U.S. President ...