While all the effects of this conflict may take time to fully realise, short and medium-term signs expose the limits of US power and see America's rivals benefiting
Storm clouds continue to gather over Beijing’s relationship with Washington. While popular discontent in the U.S. over Beijing’s handling of the coronavirus has been rising for months, China’s…
The Chinese government is taking draconian measures to slash birth rates among Uighurs and other minorities as part of a sweeping campaign to curb its Muslim population, even as it encourages some…
At a seaside summit in southernIndiainOctober 2019, Chinese PresidentXi Jinpingand Indian Prime MinisterNarendra Modipledged to take relations between their two countries to “greater heights” in the…
In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, much of the world looked anxiously toWashingtonto see if it would provide the kind of leadership that was once expected ofthe United Statesduring major…
Schadenfreude is a staple of propaganda, and so one might expect that Russia’s state media is enjoying the spectacle of the most serious American unrest since the 1960s. Surely, one might assume,…
On June 15, President Trump’s pick to head a global network of news agencies funded and operated by the US government started work following a complex a two-year confirmation process in theSenate. By…
In a press conference held by the son-in-law of the Lebanon’s president Gebran Bassil, he spoke of Israel’s fear of a regional competition with the Maronites and called for the West to help…
Amid ongoing urban unrest and the fallout from COVID-19, two states are hosting primary elections to determine key Democratic party nominees for the 2020 election. While Coronavirus-induced delays…
Just as the world today is consumed with images of American law enforcement officers pepper-spraying peaceful protesters in front of theWhite Houseand pushing old men onto the sidewalk, so was the…
In January 2019, Dan Coats, then the U.S. director of national intelligence, warned the Senate Intelligence Committee that Cambodia’s “slide toward autocracy” could enable China to establish a…
Disruption in the Hormuz can have major implications for global trade, but it also creates opportunities for smaller nations like Iran to become global political players
The Iraq war was viewed as disastrous in retrospect, while the Iran war was unpopular from the get-go. Al Majalla highlights the similarities and differences between the two.
Pipelines have a chequered history in the Middle East, but the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has led US Tom Barrack to conclude that a new route through Syria could solve some problems.