Iran and US step back from all-out war, giving Trump a win (for now)
Jan 10, 2020 10:45 am UTC| Insights & Views
US President Donald Trumps statement overnight confirming the US would not take further military action in response to Irans missile strikes on American bases in Iraq eases regional tensions for now. In hitting back at...
The US-Iran conflict and the consequences of international law-breaking
Jan 10, 2020 10:25 am UTC| Insights & Views
Editors note: Irans missile attack on a U.S. base in Iraq in retaliation for the Trump administrations killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani has dramatically escalated global tensions. Dozens of questions have...
China can still salvage 'one country, two systems' in Hong Kong – here's how
Jan 07, 2020 15:47 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Authorities in Hong Kong may have hoped to start 2020 by putting a turbulent period of sustained, often violent protests behind them. Instead hundreds of thousands of protesters ushered in the new year by taking to the...
In Iran showdown, conflict could explode quickly – and disastrously
Jan 07, 2020 15:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Despite the claims of optimists, the odds that an international conflict will snowball into a bloody war havent gone down significantly since the end of World War II. Trump administration officials confidence that the...
Jan 07, 2020 15:31 pm UTC| Insights & Views
US President Donald Trump has not held back on threatening Iran after the targeted killing of General Qassem Soleimani, a veteran of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s and a key player in expanding Irans links with armed...
Qassem Suleimani air strike: why this is a dangerous escalation of US assassination policy
Jan 06, 2020 17:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The US government has killed Iranian general Qassem Suleimani, commander of the Quds Force, the elite wing of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards, in an air strike that took place in the early hours of January...
Jan 06, 2020 16:50 pm UTC| Insights & Views
President Donald Trumps policy toward Iran is in deep crisis. The presidents approach has the support neither of Americas allies nor of its strategic rivals, China and Russia. And his policy made even more confrontational...
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