A three-day informal Arab-Iranian Dialogue has just taken place in Doha (Qatar). The conference, mostly held behind closed doors, acquired special significance because it took place shortly after events showing that the world may be ready to turn a new page in its history. First, the top leadership of both countries – Crown Prince of…
Call it what you will: on-the-job training; work experience. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) is learning from his mistakes. Don’t get me wrong. If he could kill another Jamal Khashoggi and get away with it without the theatre, he would. If he could find a way of crushing Yemen’s Houthis in one blow, he would….
Chinese President Xi Jingping and his Palestinian Authority (PA) counterpart, Mahmoud Abbas, announced that the two had signed a strategic partnership, with Beijing offering to mediate between the PA and Israel in addition to facilitating unity between rival Palestinian political parties. China’s recent push towards further involvement in the Middle East’s central conflict will invite…
Surprise attacks lead to enduring traumas for the country under attack. This was true for the United States after Pearl Harbor in 1941 and continues to this day following the 9/11 attacks in New York City and Washington. The same was true for Russia in the wake of Operation Barbarossa, the German codename for Hitler’s…
This emerging scenario poses a serious threat to China’s national security interests since it amounts to Japan’s US-encouraged remilitarization driving that country’s neo-imperial expansion to Southeast Asia. The first-ever trilateral National Security Advisors (NSA) summit took place on Friday between the US, Japan, and the Philippines, during which time they agreed to build upon their…
The global world order is on the verge of a radical transformation. The Western powers 30 years ago saw in the collapse of the Soviet Union, which resulted from its internal weaknesses and mistakes, an unprecedented opportunity to dominate the world by way of deterring possible competitors by any means. Perhaps one of the most…
