Hiroshima: Known for abject apologies, Obama touches hot potato
President Barack Obama’s announcement last week that he will visit Hiroshima on May 27 stunned the world with its highly opaque symbolism and significance. (FULL STORY) (more…)
China’s rise speeds U.S. action to lift ban on arms sales to Vietnam
On the eve of President Obama’s visit to Vietnam, the U.S. government is inching closer to lifting a decades-old ban on arms sales and shipment to Vietnam. (FULL STORY) (more…)
Chinese groups flocking to invest in Israeli high tech partnerships
A Chinese group is set for a $300 million shopping spree in Israel’s “supermarket for innovation.” (FULL STORY) (more…)
Having revived Russia’s strategic clout, Putin hits fiscal realities
By Jack Caravelli Russia has scored impressive strategic gains through its 2014 annexation of the Crimea and late 2015 deployment of combat forces to Syria. (FULL STORY) (more…)
Israel allowed to open permanent office at NATO headquarters
Israel is set to open a permanent office at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on May 4. (FULL STORY) (more…)
Frustrated in Iran: Khamenei challenges presence of U.S. Fifth Fleet
Iran is ready to block access to the Strait of Hormuz over the United States’ “meddling approach” in the Persian Gulf. (FULL STORY) (more…)
Obama’s slow response to ISIL has made it difficult to defeat
By Jack Caravelli Years after the United States and a handful of coalition partners began limited military operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), the picture (more…)
‘Click farms’: China’s propaganda hubs proliferate Facebook likes
While China’s 700 million netizens are blocked from Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) English-language propaganda machine is killing it with social media fans around the (more…)
Tit for tat: China blocks U.S. aircraft carrier’s port call in Hong Kong
Bilateral military tensions spiked this week after China unceremoniously denied an American request to allow the USS John Stennis, and its four accompanying warships to make a port call (more…)