After reports emerged about Russia’s potentially disruptive new space-based capability, Senior Fellow Rebeccah Heinrichs appeared on Fox News to examine the possible severity of the threat.

Senior Fellow Jonathan Ward appeared on Fox Business to discuss the United States’ strategic disadvantages in the Western Pacific and China’s growing cooperation with Russia.

Lionel Messi sat out a soccer match in Hong Kong, sparking an outcry from the paranoid Chinese Communist Party. Read Senior Fellow Miles Yu’s op-ed in the Washington Times or listen to the latest China Insider to learn why the CCP reacted so strongly to this relatively minor incident.

As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi leverages nationalism and faith to spur modernization and economic growth, many elites in New Delhi worry whether the US will be able to keep the global system intact. In the Wall Street Journal, Distinguished Fellow Walter Russell Mead discusses his recent conversations with Modi and other Indian leaders on the future of the world’s most populous state.

Just before President Joe Biden hinted that he would support a Gaza cease-fire last Friday, Senior Fellows Michael Doran and Peter Rough discussed the administration’s uncertain attitude toward the Israel-Hamas War with Israeli historian Gadi Taub on Counterbalance.

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Although the Pakistani people recently elected a new civilian government, “the military’s ability to influence the course of events remains intact,” argues Senior Fellow Husain Haqqani in Foreign Policy.