The Lee Administration's recent consideration of deploying Korean forces to the Strait of Hormuz has sparked backlash from civil society and even among Lee's supporters. As public opposition grows, questions arise about
by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor Cuba is not merely experiencing a crisis. It is living through the slow unravelling of a political project that once promised dignity through equality and sovereignty through
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The United States is confronting a far more entrenched rare earth dependency problem than its recent political rhetoric suggests. Over the past year, President Donald Trump has pushed an aggressive agenda aimed
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An unusually large and heavily layered motorcade escorting President Donald Trump through Beijing during his recent state visit to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping has drawn significant attention from observers, particularly due
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Chinese President Xi Jinping’s decision to invoke the “Thucydides Trap” during a major summit with the United States in Beijing was far more than a passing historical reference. It was a carefully
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by Our Economic Affairs Editor U.S. President Donald Trump has begun a closely watched three-day visit to China at a moment of heightened geopolitical tension, returning to Beijing for the first time
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The United States has escalated its strained relationship with Europe after the Pentagon abruptly cancelled a planned deployment of a 4,000-strong armored brigade to Poland, a decision that has intensified concerns about
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The United States and Cuba have entered a new and unexpected phase of diplomatic engagement, marked by an extraordinary meeting in Havana between the director of the CIA and Cuba’s top internal
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The tragedy that unfolded at Denver International Airport on the night of 9 May 2026 presents not merely an isolated operational failure but a profound juridical and philosophical challenge to contemporary civil
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America’s newest quagmire in the Middle East is like its old quagmires in the Middle East. It is based, as were the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, on a gross misreading of
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Guatemala has acknowledged that long-standing external pressure from the United States has surrounded its cooperation with Cuban medical brigades, as the country moves forward with plans to gradually end a healthcare partnership
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US President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for a new round of face-to-face talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping from May 14 to 15, a meeting arriving at a particularly
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U.S. President Donald Trump praised Chinese President Xi Jinping as a “great leader” on Thursday as the two leaders opened a closely watched summit in Beijing aimed at stabilizing relations between the
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From Beijing this week, the first US state visit to China in nine years is being staged for the world to see. The Great Hall of the People is open to Donald Trump, who
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President Donald Trump stepped off Air Force One after landing in Beijing today, and the Chinese rolled out the red carpet: military honor guard, three hundred students waving American and Chinese flags,
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Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez has sharply rejected claims by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Washington offered $100 million in humanitarian aid to the island, describing the allegation as a
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