The main challenge before the international world is not so much China’s technological advancement, rather the strategy embraced by America to turn that advancement into a political divide. By Mehmet Enes Beşer As geopolitical rivalry between the US and China grows, the technology domain is, by far, the most contentious field. The new international technological order is being shaped increasingly ...

Military exercises of Western countries already heighten risks. In recent weeks, the island of Cyprus—long a fault line between competing geopolitical visions—has once again emerged as a focal point of escalating military activity. A surge in Western deployments, concentrated primarily in the island’s southern half, has raised alarm bells across the region. While officials in European capitals frame the buildup ...

Ahead of the parliamentary elections of April 12, interview with Thibaud Gibelin, a visiting fellow at the Matthias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) in Budapest. By Yasin Okyay Hungary is holding parliamentary elections on April 12. There are two parties with a real chance of winning the elections: Fidesz and Tisza. When looked at in a broader context, the contest between them ...

Washington maintains a policy of assigning roles-at times with implicit reproach-to Asian countries such as South Korea, Japan, Australia, and the Philippines. However, the Iran war has created a major rupture in precisely this framework. By Orçun Göktürk / President of the Sino-Turkish Studies Center The war launched against Iran following the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on ...

Right before Trump’s speech, Pezeshkian addressed the American public. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has released an open letter to the American people, questioning whether Washington is truly putting “America First” or merely acting as a “proxy for Israel” willing to fight “to the last American soldier.” In the Wednesday message, which traces the roots of US-Iran tensions back to the ...

External Maneuvering, Internal Disruption By Mehmet Enes Beşer The South China Sea has been the Indo-Pacific’s most combustible hotspot for many years. With rival claims within the sea, strategic sea lanes, and delicate military capabilities, the area needs to be managed with careful diplomacy, each party exercising restraint, and regional stewardship to prevent tensions from increasing. But recent moves by ...

The speech of Zhang Weiwei to EIR’s “Epstein and the Bottomless Depravity of the ‘Elites’ —Urgent Need for a Cultural Renaissance!” By Zhang Weiwei The Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) organized an online forum on March 2, 2026, titled “Epstein and the Bottomless Depravity of the Elites – Urgent Need for a Cultural Renaissance!” Zhang Weiwei held a speech here. Below ...

Despite the fact that millions of Egyptians worked in the Gulf and feel attached to these countries, they are, when it comes to the current conflict, Sunnis by denomination and “Shiite by inclination”. The Egyptian stance—at both the popular and official levels—regarding the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran represents a significant manifestation of the political and collective psyches that shape Cairo’s ...

Vietnam’s rethinking of the Belt and Road Initiative is not an act of weakness, but an action in response to changed realities. By Mehmet Enes Beşer Vietnam has walked a cautious path on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) for years, not wishing to become too entangled in Beijing’s geoeconomic orbit. While Hanoi has publicly endorsed the BRI, its participation ...

The Shared Desperation of Trump, Netanyahu, and Zelenskyy By Yunus Emre Özgün The global economy is once again exposing its extreme fragility in the wake of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. As the tension in the Middle East mutates into a global energy shock, the US decision to suspend sanctions on Russian oil for 30 days has brought ...

Emancipation will come from the working class’s capacity to articulate its own materialist and sovereign project. By Yenny Betancur Gutiérrez* The 2026 elections in Colombia reflect a structural crisis of sovereignty, marked by identity fragmentation, the influence of international actors, and the weakness of the State to control its territory, economy, and institutions. Analyzing the political reality of Colombia in ...

How has it been proven that economic and military superiority on paper is insufficient? By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist The Strait of Hormuz has undoubtedly been a key choke point for energy and trade routes throughout history.However, at this point in time, Hormuz has become a full-fledged choke point; despite accounting for only 20 percent of global flow, it not ...