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Can the U.S. Counter China’s Growing Soft and Sharp Power Influence Through Sanctions?

October 20, 2021

ASIA·Business·ECONOMICS·Featured·FOREIGN POLICY·Headlines·NATIONAL SECURITY·WORLD NEWS

Economic sanctions have long been the preferred foreign policy tool to outright aggression. Rising tensions with a developing China have forced many

Surviving epidemics, pandemics, bioterrorism and COVID-19 – Are you prepared?

March 4, 2020

AMERICAS·ASIA·HEALTH·WORLD NEWS

Crisis consulting firm MOSAIC is tackling the COVID-19 coronavirus through the lens of security and intelligence crisis management by releasing the guide

Blossoming Russo-Turkish alliance leaves U.S., NATO behind

August 1, 2019

ASIA·EUROPE·FOREIGN POLICY·Headlines·NATIONAL SECURITY·Op-Ed·Opinion | Analysis·RUSSIA·WORLD NEWS

Amid the failed politics of Patriot missiles and F-35s, Moscow and Ankara’s blossoming relationship has left NATO and U.S. interests exposed.

Cyber Warfare Now – Tales from the Digital Battlefield

July 2, 2019

ASIA·Cyber·Cyberwar·FOREIGN POLICY·Headlines·NATIONAL SECURITY·Op-Ed·Opinion | Analysis·RUSSIA·WORLD NEWS

Democracies worldwide are facing critical challenges from ever expanding cyberwarfare operations with the ability to not just threaten infrastructure, but to control

North Korea By the Numbers – Little Choice Remains for Trump and Kim

June 30, 2019

ASIA·FOREIGN POLICY·Op-Ed·Opinion | Analysis·Politics·WORLD NEWS

OPINION: Despite another Trump-Kim meeting, by the numbers, America’s choices don’t appear promising. “You hear the power of that voice, nobody’s heard

What exactly is the extent of Russia’s influence on North Korea?

May 5, 2019

ASIA·FOREIGN POLICY·Headlines·NATIONAL SECURITY·Op-Ed·Opinion | Analysis·WORLD NEWS

With America’s stalled progress in achieving the denuclearisation of North Korea, on a phone call this Friday, Donald Trump urged Vladimir Putin

#GailForce to Space Force: ‘Make it so’ – the Space Force debate continues

May 2, 2019

AMERICAS·ASIA·FOREIGN POLICY·Headlines·NATIONAL SECURITY·Op-Ed·Opinion | Analysis·RUSSIA·Space·Technology

The weaponization of space has become a heated topic as debate intensifies over President Trump’s proposed Space Force. Reporting from this year’s

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The Alevis Dilemma – Turkey’s Erdogan sets a religious minority on a collision course with Erdogan’s Turkey

April 7, 2019

ASIA·EUROPE·Headlines·MENA·MIDDLE EAST·Op-Ed·Opinion | Analysis·Politics·WORLD NEWS

A significant religious minority in Turkey, the Alevis, have become increasingly subject to President Erdogan’s populist ire, as they find themselves on

The Philippines, U.S., China make for a tough week at the International Criminal Court

March 24, 2019

AMERICAS·ASIA·FOREIGN POLICY·Headlines·LAW & INSTITUTIONS·Politics·WORLD NEWS

The International Criminal Court is having a tough week. With the Philippines leaving the body, the U.S. threatening to deny visas and

The fate of Afghanistan’s NATO Generation

March 15, 2019

ASIA·Headlines·NATIONAL SECURITY·Op-Ed·Opinion | Analysis·WORLD NEWS

OPINION | Almost 18 years ago the U.S. led NATO into Afghanistan. Today the majority of its 35 million people – the

The Trouble With Turkey’s Economy

February 26, 2019

ASIA·Business·Headlines·Op-Ed·Opinion | Analysis·WORLD NEWS

How did Turkey go from rapid growth to economic crisis so quickly? The Turkish economy has become a truly perplexing case. Investing

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Organised Crime in Asia – An [In]convenient Relationship: Part 2

February 24, 2019

ASIA·AUSTRALIA·Featured·Headlines·Op-Ed·Opinion | Analysis·WORLD NEWS

There is an escalating crisis in Asia. A crisis developing from the symbiosis of organised crime, terrorism and the covert domestic and

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Major Chinese Triads

February 24, 2019

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