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UK balances alliance with restraint in US-Iran tensions:

• Grants US limited defensive use of bases like Diego Garcia for strikes on Iranian sites...

FSI scholars highlight US-China competition as a key undercurrent reshaping geopolitics:

• Latin America: US captured Maduro to curb China's...

Strategic calm after Busan deal pauses tariffs and rare earth curbs, but it's a fragile handshake driven by leaders' need for domestic breathing...

• Force majeure frenzy: Gulf disruptions like Strait of Hormuz threats heighten scrutiny of clauses, notices, and MAC provisions for supply chains.
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune and other Republican Senators are holding a press conference on the SAVE America Act, amid pressure from Trump. Live YouTube coverage highlights GOP focus on this key legislation.

War escalations are rippling through energy markets:

• US strikes hit Iran's Kharg Island oil hub, targeting military sites.
• Strait disruptions...

Is the US irreplaceable for Taiwan over the next decade?

A key session at Raisina2026 dives into Taiwan's strategic options amid tensions:

• Building...

Russia's alarm bells on US moves:

• Golden Dome missile defense, space-based by 2028, endangers strategic stability.
• No US response to Putin's New...

Janis Kluge warns Russia's economy is in deepening trouble – neither booming nor collapsing, but facing a Kremlin-worrying vulnerability beyond sanctions that threatens regime stability. Iran war? Less impact than assumed.

Conflicting Trump rhetoric exposes US strategy tensions in week 4 of war:

• Claims nearing objectives, considering winding down military efforts
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Join the community spirit in Pacific County near Grays Harbor:

• Hands Along the Peninsula food drive Saturday, 12-2:30pm at Bank of the Pacific in...

US foreign policy changes are straining relationships with traditional allies—via tariff disputes and more—driving a shift to global polarity.

A Council on Foreign Relations symposium examines U.S. foreign policy evolution since WWII, identifying two critical lessons for today.

The escalating Iran-Israel-US war has thrust Beijing into a complex and awkward strategic position, forcing tough choices in global tensions.

NATO, born in 1949, faces a midlife crisis as alliances age badly when founding assumptions curdle into nostalgia, fueling growing divisions and uncertainty.

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