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Chinese crackdown. Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun has been placed under investigation over allegations of corruption, The Financial Times reported. Dong, who was appointed by Xi Jinping, would be ...

As I wrote in my most recent book, “The Storm Before the Calm,” we tend to use presidencies as benchmarks to help us locate ...

Following a meeting of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee and State Council, Beijing issued a new directive to develop an advanced industrial workforce aimed at driving Chinese-style ...

(click to enlarge) The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been more than 100 years in the making. The fragmented geography of a potential Palestinian state, divided by hostile Israeli territory, ...

Egypt has been displeased with Ethiopia’s plan to dam the Blue Nile River since the project was announced more than a decade ...

Russian tax revenue. Russia’s State Duma adopted a law increasing the profit tax rate for “natural monopoly entities transporting oil and oil products via trunk pipelines” – i.e., state pipeline ...

Russian tax revenue. Russia’s State Duma adopted a law increasing the profit tax rate for “natural monopoly entities transporting oil and oil products via ...

Germany – the political and economic heart of the European Union – is in the throes a major political crisis. Earlier this month, Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired Finance Minister ...

Editor’s note: Yesterday was election day in the United States. We at GPF tend to avoid the pontifications and predictions of electoral politics, not because it isn’t our area ...

Today's global trade patterns are very different from when Donald Trump began his first term as U.S. president in 2017. The ...

After its premier proxy Hezbollah suffered unprecedented losses in the war with Israel, it is time to reevaluate the state of ...