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The US: Good at Starting but Bad at Ending Wars
By John Delury | 17 March, 2026
As the geopolitical centre of gravity swings violently back to the Middle East, the Asia Pacific seems to have slipped back into the shadows of global media attention. But observers here are anxiously trying to figure out what the Iran War means for the region. If history is any guide, we are just at the beginning of Donald Trump’s ‘little excursion’, and US allies and adversaries should be preparing for a long haul. Removing weapons from Korea, deploying troops from Japan, and delaying a summit in China are just the tip of the iceberg.
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When the Guardrails Come Off
By Jordan Ryan | 11 March, 2026
In January 2026, Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, one of America’s leading artificial intelligence companies and until recently the Pentagon’s most widely deployed AI provider, warned that sufficiently capable artificial intelligence (AI) could allow a government to generate “a complete list of anyone who disagrees with the government on any number of issues, even if such disagreement isn’t explicit in anything they say or do.”
Trump’s China Trip: Aiming for Deliverables
By Zhiqun Zhu | 09 March, 2026
Despite the US’s ongoing “Operation Epic Fury” against Iran and its earlier kidnapping of Venezuelan leader Maduro, which have crippled the international order, preparations are underway for President Trump’s scheduled trip to China from March 31 to April 2, 2026.
Failure of US–Iran Talks Was All Too Predictable — But Turning to Military Strikes Creates Dangerous Unknowns
By Nina Srinivasan Rathbun | 05 March, 2026
Three rounds of nuclear talks between the US and Iran failed to persuade President Donald Trump that a solution to the two countries’ nuclear impasse lay in diplomacy, rather than military action.
Tehran, Caracas... Why Not Pyongyang?
By John Delury | 03 March, 2026
The United Nations is being defunded in the middle of a crisis it was built to prevent.
The UN's Moment of Truth
By Jordan Ryan | 03 March, 2026
The United Nations is being defunded in the middle of a crisis it was built to prevent.
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