Sahand 2025” marks a major milestone in Tehran’s integration into the Shanghai Cooperation Organization – and in its pursuit ...

Xi and Putin have their differences, but they are united in their desire to weaken America.

The plural of “axis” is “axes,” apparently. And foreign policy types with axes to grind have been making good use of this other meaning, too. Earlier this year, academic Walter Russell Mead warned in ...

China’s inroads in the Middle East demonstrate how the region is still a critical front in the era of US-China competition.

Since Israel’s 12-day war against Iran, Tehran and its network of regional proxies and non-state allies, the so-called Axis of Resistance, have entered a phase of strategic dormancy — an outward calm ...

Iran's first Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) counterterrorism drill is less about joint military strength and more about sending a signal: Tehran wants the world to see it as strategically ...

Last week’s meeting at the White House between President Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman did more than revive a strained partnership — it signaled a strategic reset at a moment when ...

October 27, 2025: Officially, China and Russia are allies and trading partners. The reality is somewhat different. Both countries are constantly and quietly spying on each other. China has become the ...

Nino Japaridze, Ph.D., is a Georgian-American diaspora leader and senior adviser at Edison Research. Eurasia has long been recognized as the linchpin of global power. Today, Georgia—a country perched ...

A limited return to Afghanistan would confer immense advantages to Washington while triggering second-order geopolitical repercussions among its rivals. Bagram’s geography alone explains why it ...

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has received little support from longtime allies Russia and China as President Trump ramps up military pressure against Caracas. Beijing and Moscow, Maduro’s two ...