Strikes against Syria: Did Trump need permission from Congress?
Apr 08, 2017 05:34 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Launching 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian military airfield in response to a Syrian chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of civilians raises important questions. Does the president have, or should he have, the...
With Syria missile strikes, Trump turns from non-intervention to waging war
Apr 07, 2017 08:51 am UTC| Insights & Views
The United States unilateral missile strikes against a Syrian airforce base are a dramatic escalation of its participation in that countrys civil war. The US government has attacked a Syrian government asset for the first...
Will the US missile strike be the turning point in Syria's shifting war?
Apr 07, 2017 08:48 am UTC| Insights & Views
The US has hit the Syrian airbase used to launch this weeks suspected sarin gas attack against Khan Sheikhun that killed more than 80 civilians. US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson cited the...
Global Geo-political Series: South China Sea tensions intensify with Duterte land grab
Apr 07, 2017 06:41 am UTC| Commentary
South China Sea row intensified after Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the Philippines military to occupy and fortify islands in the South China Sea amid ongoing territorial disputes between China and other...
Apr 07, 2017 06:06 am UTC| Commentary
Geopolitical tension intensified between the United States and Russia as the United States attacked the Assad regime by launching 59 tomahawk cruise missiles targeting airports in response to an alleged chemical weapon...
Trump-Xi summit is just the start of dealing with thorny issues in US-Sino relations
Apr 06, 2017 07:28 am UTC| Insights & Views
Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet US President Donald Trump for the first time on April 6 and 7 at the latters Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach. On the agenda are a number of contentious issues that the two leaders are...
What South Korean president Park’s political demise means for the region's geopolitics
Apr 02, 2017 02:41 am UTC| Insights & Views
South Koreas former president, Park Geun-hye, has been arrested on charges including extortion, bribery and abuse of power over an influence-peddling scandal that led to her impeachment by the National Assembly in December...
Electricity from farm waste: how biogas could help Malawians with no power
Young middle-class Nigerians are desperate to leave the country: insights into why
What the Supreme Court is doing right in considering Trump’s immunity case
Will Solomon Islands’ new leader stay close to China?
US election: why it’s not the protesters’ votes that the Democrats should worry about
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects