Global Outlook

The 2025 Pacific Peoples’ Mission to New Caledonia reveals deepening injustices and insecurities in Kanaky New Caledonia.

On December 4, the Trump administration released its 2025 National Security Strategy, the document articulating America's approach to global security.

As Spain marked the fiftieth anniversary of Francisco Franco’s death in November 2025, the country’s reckoning with its past collided with social media platforms amplifying distorted versions of the dictatorship to millions of young Spaniards.

It was seemingly an unprepared remark and quite unnecessary. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said that Japan will defend Taiwan if Beijing tries to reunify China by force.

In an extraordinary act of foreign interference in a friendly country’s bilateral relations with a third country, the French, German and British envoys published an op-ed in The Times of India on Monday that was highly critical of India’s continued close relations with Russia.

China’s rising economic and conventional capabilities are now paired with expanding nuclear forces. Strategically, Washington must decide whether it is possible to avoid confronting China and Russia together, and the price to make that happen.