In the first weeks of September, dozens of senior Chinese officials from high-profile positions throughout the country were tapped to take up new positions ...

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There are two major wars being fought. One, between Ukraine and Russia, has been raging for more than two and a half years but has been roughly confined ...

At GPF we have a distinct method for looking at the world, and every day we see this model play out in real time, like in the current conflicts in the ...

The European Union’s economic growth rate slowed in the second quarter, though the bloc’s gross domestic product was 0.2 percent higher compared with the previous three-month period. The EU’s largest ...

Coalescing opposition. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a network of Iran-backed militias, would consider the United Arab Emirates the first target of attack if a full-scale war breaks out with Israel, ...

Russia understands that it’s approaching a demographic crisis. Problems such as falling birth rates would be difficult enough for Moscow to solve even if it weren’t trying to manage migration, ...

Over the past few days, Israel’s air force has conducted hundreds of airstrikes against Hezbollah positions in Lebanon. Nearly 600 Lebanese residents, including 94 women and 35 children, were killed ...

Changes. Russian President Vladimir Putin said the Kremlin is considering revising its rules on when it would use nuclear weapons. He made the comments following a meeting with the Security Council ...