A Devil of a Deal
Putin will rejoice at this prisoner exchange, secure in the knowledge that hostage-taking has not yet reached the point of diminishing returns.
Brian Stewart
· 6 min read
Foreign Affairs
A collection of 126 posts
The Feckless Lebanese State
American money and goodwill cannot fix a state when its own people refuse to make the sacrifices necessary to establish and defend effective, efficient, and responsible governance.
Eric Bordenkircher
· 8 min read
Life in China’s Crosshairs
For the Taiwanese, independence is not just a matter of national pride, it is a requisite for their dignity and their right to choose their own civilisational path.
Liam Hunt
· 9 min read
An Interrupted Genocide
The widespread reluctance to describe the atrocities of 7 October correctly is an impediment to peace.
Jeffrey Herf
· 11 min read
The War Against Truth
It has long been a cliché that China is inscrutable to foreigners, but it is also becoming inscrutable to itself.
Aaron Sarin
· 9 min read
The Quincy Institute’s Middle East Fantasies
The positions adopted by the think tank’s scholars during the war in Gaza are illustrative of its overall Middle East agenda: appease Iran and demonise Israel.
Leon Hadar
· 15 min read
Vapid Antiwar-ism
Since 7 October, Nicholas Kristof has produced a torrent of outraged testimony that betrays a refusal to grapple with the world as it is.
Brian Stewart
· 9 min read
Britain’s Golden Slumber
The British establishment’s China policy resembles a man periodically waking only to fall asleep again.
Aaron Sarin
· 11 min read
The Politicisation of International Justice
A dissection of the ICC’s warrant application reveals that obvious liberties have been taken with the truth.
Norman J.W. Goda
· 11 min read
The Limits of ‘The Israel Lobby’
Mearsheimer and Walt still don’t understand American support for Israel.
Matt Johnson
· 25 min read
The Great Divide
As CCP corruption and waste has run rampant, the gulf between rich and poor has widened.
Aaron Sarin
· 9 min read
Cuba’s Imprisoned Truth
An interview with the father of Cuban political prisoner Walnier Luis Aguilar Rivera.
Justo Antonio Triana
· 11 min read
Return of the Fortune Tellers
Wary of the Abrahamic faiths and increasingly contemptuous of Karl Marx’s alternative, young Chinese are drawn instead to tarot, divination, healers, and mediums.
Aaron Sarin
· 8 min read
Alexei Navalny 1976–2024
The life and death of a complex and courageous dissident.
John Lloyd
· 14 min read
Spies, Honeytraps, and Dissident Hunters
The Chinese Communist Party lives, breathes, and hallucinates espionage.
Aaron Sarin
· 11 min read