Taiwan

By CIVICUS Jul 22 2026 (IPS) CIVICUS discusses land grabs and environmental damage linked to a luxury coastal resort project with Eva Kushova, Director of Destination Management Organisation Albania, a civil society organisation that supports sustainable tourism in Albanian destinations, seeking to...

Major General Mykhailo Drapatly Did you hear the story about Ukraine’s glorious defeat of the Russian army? Western media outlets during the last four weeks have been touting the amazing success of the Ukrainian army. So ask yourself… If you’re winning...

Four weeks ago, Pakistan looked like one of the biggest winners of the U.S.-Iran war. Its army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, shuttled between Washington, Tehran and Gulf capitals for months. As part of his efforts, Pakistan hosted the first face-to-face...

It sometimes seems easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of Washington’s anti-China obsession. Congressional Republicans, on one side, are championing a staggering $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget that would cannibalize domestic programs to " deter China ."...

After ten years of upgrades, repairs, and program-related issues, the lead Zumwalt-class destroyer is finally returning to service this September. But it will have to go without the hypersonic missiles many hoped would give the troubled program a purpose. Thanks to...

The Israeli government paid a Republican Party-aligned public affairs company $9.9 million to advertise and promote content in American social media and news sites, according to a new disclosure made to the Department of Justice. The firm, Targeted Communications Global,...

The following biographical entry draws almost exclusively from an Arabic piece composed by Mawlānā Ḍiyāʾ al-Ḥaqq ʿAbd al-Aḥad, a graduate of Jāmiʿa Dār al-ʿUlūm, Karachi, and a former professor of Arabic literature and rhetoric at the Jāmiʿa Banūriyya ʿĀlamiyya. Mawlānā Muḥammad...

Today’s top items: 1. Stock market rescue progress - The government intervention to prop up stock prices worked Tuesday. The Shanghai Composite closed up 1.8% at 3,864.37, the Shenzhen Component up 4.8% at 14,264.29, while the ChiNext and STAR Market indexes...

Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su It Didn’t Turn Out the Way They Said It Would They had promised it would be over soon. They had promised there would be an epoch-making victory, defeating the “Kremlin...

Ece Temelkuran in “Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century” draws on her exile from Turkey to prepare us for a future we do not want but will be forced to endure. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist...

The protest against Jared Kushner’s property developments is part of a broader anti-corruption movement spreading across the Balkans. John P. Ruehl is an Australian-American journalist living in Washington, D.C. He is a contributing editor to Strategic Policy and a contributor to...

Emmanuel Macron is playing silly games with France’s nuclear arsenal, presumably in an attempt to keep Russia guessing. But when you are dealing with nukes, uncertainty and unpredictability is the worst scenario possible. Pavel Devyatkin is a Non-Resident Fellow at the...

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, elected in 2024 with nearly 60 percent of the vote, has continued many of her predecessor Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s policies while placing emphasis on clean energy, public-private investment, and aggressive mass digitalization. Her flagship...

Israel’s largest arms firms angrily refused to answer questions from independent media at an arms fair in England on Monday. They had been invited to the Farnborough International Airshow despite being required by French authorities to cover their stands in black...

A ROUTE TO A PEACE PRIZE [A GUEST ARTICLE BY RYAN L. DUDLEY] JULY 21, 2026 According to rumors, President Trump is hoping to receive a Peace Prize. Unfortunately, his actions are counter-productive. He is bogged down in both the Ukraine War...

This story was originally published in the Daily Yonder. For more rural reporting and small-town stories visit dailyyonder.com . When Meredith Dean started the first Community Works chapters, she saw people reengaging in politics. “We were seeing more and more volunteers coming...

This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . When the Strait of Hormuz first closed at the start of the 2026 Iran war , the world braced for the “ largest energy crisis...

On May 21, after a five-and-a-half week trial in Southampton Crown Court , England, three teenage boys walked out with 10 rape convictions between them , and went home. It began in November 2024 , when a 15-year-old girl walked to...

The release of China’s first-half economic data for 2026 has triggered familiar skepticism across Western media . As the second-quarter GDP growth moderated to 4.3 percent—bringing the first-half expansion to 4.7 percent—mainstream headlines were quick to double down on anxieties...

By Russell CONTRERAS, Delano MASSEY Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The semiquincentennial is becoming a proxy battle over patriotism, belonging and whether the country’s founding ideals should be celebrated as settled history or unfinished work. The...

By: Khanh Vu Duc Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to Manila this week— attending the ASEAN Post-Ministerial Conference, the East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, and the ASEAN Regional Forum — highlights a crucial geopolitical reality: while the Taiwan Strait...

By Lauren PEARLE Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su In a deeply divided country, one issue is cutting through the noise: Americans increasingly agree that the affordability crisis is real and that it could get worse. A new...

Global Nobel Laureates at the Assembly on Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear War held last week in Rome. Credit: Katsuhiro Asagiri/INPS Japan. By Ariel F. Dumont BORGO LAUDATO SI’, Italy, Jul 21 2026 (IPS) “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” By...

The childish rivalry with Argentines, inflamed by the media, reveals moral weaknesses within Brazilian society. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Almost every people possesses what Carl Schmitt called the fundamental distinction between friend and enemy....

RAMALLAH, Occupied Palestine / PNN / Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank accelerated at an unprecedented pace during the first half of 2026, with Israeli authorities advancing 162 settlement plans targeting more than 22,650 dunums (22.65 square kilometers) of...

RAMALLAH, Occupied Palestine / PNN / Dr. Ramzi Khouri, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and head of the Higher Presidential Committee for Church Affairs in Palestine, warned Monday that Israel's accelerating settlement expansion across the occupied...

RAMALLAH, Occupied Palestine / PNN/ The Israeli Prison Service has increasingly used rubber-coated bullets against Palestinian political prisoners in recent months, marking what the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) described Monday as a dangerous escalation in the treatment of detainees inside Israeli...

Even superpowers depend on global supply chains. The real prize? Setting the rules others follow. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su A structural and widespread phenomenon In contemporary strategic discourse, the term “technological sovereignty” has, over the...

Israel extended the area under its control along Gaza’s eastern edge earlier this week, carrying out military operations in Gaza City and Deir al-Balah that forced people into displacement, eyewitnesses in both cities told Mada Masr. The two governorates lie adjacent...

Bethlehem / PNN/ The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media has launched a new study titled "Algorithms of Violence: Analysis of Behaviors, Representations, and Implications of Organized Crime on TikTok among Palestinian Society in Israel." The study examines the...