In 2020 alone, the U.S. sold a total of $5.1 billion in arms to Taiwan, including missiles, rocket artillery, coastal defense systems, aerial reconnaissance drones, 66 F-16 jets, and other smaller packages. However, many of these systems will not be delivered for at least another year, and with growing U.S.-China tensions over Taiwan, the U.S. should take this delivery time to reconsider these sales.
Election results from Tuesday’s fourth election indicate both Netanyahu and his rivals could face a daunting task to muster a majority coalition: Uniting sprawling political factions divided on security, religious issues, and opinions of Netanyahu is a tough feat.
The Biden administration’s re-engagement with the international community and its recent extension of the New START Treaty, a different bilateral arms agreement with Russia, could indicate that the US is willing to rejoin the INF.
Conservatives across the globe are continuing to rally behind a scientifically debunked claim that climate change isn’t happening. If conservatives don’t get up to speed soon, they risk slipping further into the irrelevance of their old ways.
In modern multicultural Britain, there should be no adulation of figures like Rhodes, who orchestrated and oversaw the rise of an empire defined by genocide, racism and suppression.
“Coronavirus kills its first democracy,” proclaimed a Washington Post headline in March 2020. Hungary had just granted Viktor Orbán, its Prime Minister, virtually unchecked...
The initial disparate responses of Facebook and Google mark a curious divergence in a long history of parallels. Though both companies have remained relatively steadfast in their own defense, the forked road may signify that tensions between Big Tech and government have reached a boiling point.
In the end, Pérez Jiménez transformed the city, but he did not transform hearts and minds. Although the buildings still stand, his government’s legacy most certainly does not.
As the nation celebrates its independence this week, we must remember that while parties win by votes, nation-states win by survival — and that is what is on the table with Albin Kurti at the head.
