I. Princess Pingyang’s Legacy Meets Wu Zhao: The Tang Dynasty’s Window of Female Power Wu Zetian was not content with the title of empress—she seized […]
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The Sino-Russian Border and the Treaties China Calls Unequal — and Russia Calls History
Unfinished Business: China’s History with Russia’s 19th-Century Treaties China’s relations with former colonial or imperial powers vary widely, and its willingness to “forgive” or move […]
Eight Consecutive Years Without a Passed Audit — and the Pentagon Gets a 50% Raise
The Only Government Agency That Can’t Pass an Audit — and Is Rewarded for It The Pentagon has now failed its annual financial audit for […]
The Taiwan “Idiocy”: Why Game Theory Rules Out a 2027 Invasion
From coastal vulnerability to the “Game of Chicken” with Japan, here is why Beijing is playing a much longer—and more cautious—game. The drumbeat of war […]
Epstein Files, Deleted Evidence, and the Kidnapping of Maduro: Coincidence or Calculation of a Convenient Distraction from the Decadent Elites of a Dying Empire?
Just as the Epstein files threatened to expose some of the world’s most powerful figures, a sudden international crisis overnight diverted global attention. Conveniently for […]
Germany’s Second Genocide of the 20th Century – Before the Holocaust: The Forgotten Crime Story
Between 1904 and 1908, in what was then German South West Africa (present-day Namibia), German colonial forces systematically annihilated the Herero and Nama peoples. Historians […]
The Forgotten Massacre: Germany’s Very First Genocide – in China
Northern China, 1900: villages smoldered amid the ruins of ancient temples, the air heavy with the acrid smoke of destruction and the cries of the […]
Who will be the next president of Ukraine?
Presidential elections were to be held in Ukraine on March 31, 2024. However, due to the extension of martial law for 90 days in February […]
End of the American Empire and Lessons for India
Geopolitical strategies for India in a multipolar world “To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.” These […]
Donald Trump, the American Dollar and China: What to watch for during 2025
Donald Trump wants to boost exports, to bring American jobs back to the United States and to reduce, to shrink the American trade deficit. For […]