Diplomacy & International Relations

Taiwan’s Special Defense Budget Bill Passes with Drastic Cuts

(Matthew Fulco - The Jamestown Foundation) A $25 billion special defense budget passed Taiwan’s legislature, ensuring funds for U.S. arms purchases but cutting most...

Beijing’s Regional Studies Push Risks Campaign-Style Overreach

(Yaqi Li - Jamestown Foundation) Chinese universities only began teaching area studies as a distinct discipline in 2022, as a latent response to a...

Beijing’s Emerging Corps of Foreign Service Nationals and Proxies

(Matt Brazil - Jamestown Foundation) The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is increasingly employing locally hired foreign nationals as staff in its foreign mission...

The World Is Trying to Govern AI. The UN Wants In

(Tony Oweke - Council on Foreign Relations) The United Nations’ Global Dialogue on AI Governance—born out of the 2024 Global Digital Compact (GDC) and...

Israel Reacts to U.S.-Iran Talks with Escalation

(The Soufan Center) Israel has escalated pressure on Hamas and Hezbollah by moving deeper into both Gaza and Lebanon and killing two successive leaders...

‘Fundamentally Different Ideas’ Cloud US-Iran Talks, Former Senior US Diplomat Says

(Alex Raufoglu - RFE/RL) As US President Donald Trump concluded a high-stakes Situation Room meeting on a possible Iran agreement, major questions remained open:...

Global news (30 maggio 2026)

Armenia - Eurasian Economic Union - European Union (RFE/RL) Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan have issued an ultimatum to Armenia, threatening to suspend its membership...

Chinese Hackers Exploit Iran War to Target Maritime and Energy Companies

(Danny Palmer - Infosecurity Magazine) Hacking groups linked to China have exploited the war in the Middle East in attempts to compromise maritime and...

Iraq Forms New Government amid Regional Turmoil

(Lahib Higel - Crisis Group) On 14 May, six months after general elections were held in November 2025, Iraq’s parliament approved a still-incomplete government...

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