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Unbeknownst to most Americans, for whom Africa scarcely registers as an afterthought, the United States has a long and deep history of special...
On a recent Monday, when a generically named Chinese ship called the Explorer No. 1 docked in the German North Sea port of Bremerhaven, it may have...
In August 1958, Charles de Gaulle, who had just returned to power in France, set off on a tour of his country’s sub-Saharan African colonies. His...
In the mid-1980s, although its dissolution was nearly at hand, few were predicting the complete demise of the Soviet Union. But when it came to the...
Every now and then, a narrowly framed news item offers up glimmers of pathways toward the possible resolution of much bigger problems. And so it was...
News, analysis, and background on the ongoing conflict. More on this topic On the night of March 9-10, 1945, the United States dramatically shifted...
Herd sentiment among pundits and others who analyze the direction of Chinese affairs has always been subject to sudden shifts. In the late 1970s and...
During the middle years of the last decade, I had a front-row seat to what seemed like potential epochal change unfurling across East Asia. During the...
Shortly after the start of Israeli assault on Gaza, which came in response to Hamas’s murderous Oct. 7 attack on its territory, Israel’s...
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News, analysis, and background on the ongoing conflict. More on this topic On Wednesday, U.S. President Joe Biden issued what sounded like a...
To those who steep themselves in history, and others who follow international affairs with obsessive focus, the bill of particulars often cited this...
The Western press rarely shows China’s leader, Xi Jinping, smiling broadly or laughing, seeming to prefer photos of him that project a stern, even...
News, analysis, and background on the ongoing conflict. More on this topic The footage from inside Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital, which the Israel...
News, analysis, and background on the ongoing conflict. More on this topic For at least two weeks now, the press has told us with numbing repetition...
This time of year, the days in Ferrara, a slightly out-of-the-way medieval castle town in northern Italy that I visited in late September, have a...
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News, analysis, and background on the ongoing conflict. More on this topic In war, it is commonplace to note that the longer a conflict’s duration...
News, analysis, and background on the ongoing conflict. More on this topic The cascade of emotion and revulsion over the heinous tactics used by...
Nearly five years ago, acting on a warrant from a federal judge in New York, Canadian police arrested a high-profile Chinese businesswoman, Meng...
As world leaders gather in New York this week for the annual United Nations General Assembly, many of the themes of their speeches are so predictable...
For most of the past 15 years, my interactions with young Chinese in their late teens and 20s have obeyed a familiar pattern. Having grown up in an...