Opinion: Putin is winning World War Three

Miraculously, against all odds, Russian President Vladimir Putin is winning World War Three — just not on the bloody battlefields of Ukraine. In Ukraine, his battered military — after three-and-a-half ... Read More

Russia is ‘losing’ its war on Ukraine, Joint Staff chairman, envoy tell Trump: ‘We’d kick their ass’

If Putin thinks Russia is winning, his definition of winning and my definition of winning are absolutely two different things,” Keith Kellogg said. Read More

Russia wants what it cannot have

The real 'root cause' of the war in Ukraine is Russia’s inability to accept that centuries of empire do not confer the right to dominate former colonies forever. Read More

Russia Is Losing the War—Just Not to Ukraine

But summits and sweatshirts won’t make Russia a superpower. Only a credible show of strength can do that. The war in Ukraine was meant to supply this, but it has instead become a slow-motion ... Read More

Opinion: Trump’s hidden goal in Alaska was to break the China-Russia axis

The Alaska summit between President Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, was more than a high-stakes encounter over the Ukraine war. It signaled America’s recognition that its own ... Read More

China has yet to win the global power struggle

President Xi Jinping’s recent summit and military parade show the People’s Republic is on the rise. But Beijing has weaknesses and its model lacks appeal, while Donald Trump has not fully wasted US ... Read More

Putin lambasts trade sanctions on eve of visit to China

BEIJING (Reuters) -On the eve of a visit to China, Russian leader Vladimir Putin blasted Western sanctions as his country's economy teetered on the brink of recession, wounded by trade curbs and the ... Read More

How China uses second world war history in its bid to reshape the global order – podcast

Historian Meredith Oyen explains how disagreements over the history of the second world war and who fought the Japanese are central to tensions between China and Taiwan. Listen on The Conversation ... Read More