China Proved Its Strengths in 2025—and Donald Trump Helped ( Economist) It was a good year for Xi Jinping.

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Who Can Solve Iran’s Many Problems? Not I, Says the President. (Farnaz Fassihi and Leily Nikounazar, New York Times) Amid sky-high inflation, water and energy cuts and prospects for a deal with the U.

I Watched 12 Hours of Nick Fuentes (Ali Breland, The Atlantic) The white-supremacist influencer is laying the groundwork to go even bigger.

Trump’s Business Model Is to Break Europe (Majda Ruge, Foreign Policy) Washington wants a free hand for Silicon Valley and Russia investment. The EU is an obstacle—and the far right is an ally.

Inside the Space Force’s Push for Orbital Missile Killers (Stavros Atlamazoglou, National Interest) The development of these weapon systems has a clear goal: deter and, if necessary, defeat US ...

US president singles out London, saying it is now a “different place” and referring to London mayor Sadiq Khan as “vicious and disgusting.” Why Trump’s “America First” Security Strategy Is Misguided, ...

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How Japan Built a Rare-Earth Supply Chain Without China (River Akira Davis and Kiuko Notoya, New York Times) The 15-year effort by Japan is a model for countries now scrambling to reduce their ...

For years, conversations about the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence in the West have been dismissed as fringe, conspiratorial, or Islamophobic. The result is that many policymakers, security ...

The long-anticipated plan aims to selectively impose the U.S. president’s worldview around the globe. Trump Administration Says Europe Faces “Civilizational Erasure” (Michael D. Shear, Jeanna Smialek, ...