Chinese media leaked the news that Beijing is working on its first domestically built aircraft carrier. But China is still far from challenging America’s naval power.

China’s growth enables it to be truly, for the first time, a Eurasian power between East Asia and the West. A pan-peripheral grand strategy would suit it best.

Neither democratic theory nor common sense can justify the institution of a public sector union.

The old wise-man consensus about the inefficacy of economic sanctions is truly old. Turns out they often work pretty well these days.

Find out why Turkey’s President recently demanded the extradiction of Fethullah Gülen from Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania.

China lays down the law on ideological impurity in education: “Never let textbooks promoting western values appear in our classes.”

The Anglosphere may be turning left just as the U.S. veers right.

The progressive theorist who wrote the book on the “emerging Democratic majority” now believes the country could be seeing an “emerging Republican advantage.” But GOP triumphalists shouldn’t be too quick to rejoice.

An Iraqi exile eavesdrops on life in her old hometown of Mosul.

A developing run on the Greek banks may speed up the Eurozone crisis.