Indonesia mines more nickel than any other country, producing more than 60% of the world’s supply. For about a decade, Jakarta has pursued “downstreaming” — a strategy to move beyond…
Like few other countries, Taiwan faces a legitimate existential crisis. Beijing’s position that Taiwan must submit to absorption by the People’s Republic of China, even by force if necessary, is insistent…
The Chinese Communist Party (CPC) Congress scheduled for autumn 2027 could be one of the most delicate and significant in its history. President Xi Jinping will extend his power for…
The global economy is entering a new era in which artificial intelligence is no longer merely a technological innovation but an increasingly influential economic force. Much as the internet transformed…
In 1870, the Italian physician Cesare Lombroso examined the skull of a dead thief named Giuseppe Villella and decided he had found the source of criminality. Villella’s skull carried a…
OYSTER BAY, PALAWAN – When American forces withdrew from Iraq in 2011, I watched it happen from Kuwait, where I worked as a contracted security guard. The last convoy crossed…