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China is expected to look for ways to protect its maritime interests in the face of increasingly assertive efforts by the United States to seize foreign ships it accuses of breaching sanctions on countries such as Iran and Venezuela. In November, a cargo ship travelling to Iran from China was reportedly raided by a US…
Former Google software engineer Ding Linwei was convicted by a federal jury in San Francisco on Thursday of stealing AI trade secrets from the US tech giant to benefit two Chinese companies he was secretly working for, the US Department of Justice said on Thursday. Ding, a 38-year-old Chinese national, was found guilty after an…
Beijing has lifted sanctions on British peers and lawmakers, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said, following his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. “This has been a cause of concern in parliament and for parliamentarians for some time and that is why I raised it on this visit,” Starmer told ITV News in Shanghai….
US President Donald Trump on Friday named former Federal Reserve official Kevin Warsh to be the next head of the US central bank, after teasing his choice for weeks, with Jerome Powell due to step down from the top job in May. The 55-year-old Warsh, who served as a governor of the Federal Reserve Board…
The number of children who died by suicide in Japan rose to a record 532 in 2025, the second straight year in which the figure has reached a historic high, even as the country’s overall suicide toll fell to its lowest level in decades. Preliminary statistics released by the health ministry on Thursday showed the…
The recent announcement by China’s Ministry of Defense regarding the investigation of General Zhang Youxia, a vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), has sent ripples through the global geopolitical landscape. For over a decade, President Xi Jinping has wielded an unrelenting anti-corruption campaign as both a shield for the state and a sword for…
When Nazi Germany began its occupation of Denmark in April 1940, Greenland suddenly found itself cut off from its colonial power and thrust into the center of North Atlantic wartime strategy. The US temporarily took control of Greenland, establishing bases and defense perimeters there to prevent Germany from using the island. More than 80 years…
Facing a shrinking fleet and a widening naval gap with China, USNI reported this month that the US Navy is giving its troubled Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) a second look—not as a triumph of design, but as a stopgap born of strategic necessity. The US Navy has decided to retain seven vessels previously slated for…
Pakistan has stepped back from the edge of immediate default, yet it remains far from building an economy capable of generating durable power. On January 7, Islamabad signaled just how exposed its flagship geoeconomic strategy has become by announcing plans for a dedicated police formation to shield Chinese nationals and China-Pakistan Economic Corridor assets after…
Donald Trump lost his bid for re-election in 2020. But for more than five years, he has been trying to convince Americans the opposite is true by falsely saying the election was marred by widespread fraud. Now that he is president again, Trump is pushing the federal government to back up those bogus claims. On…
