If the current momentum survives the next several weeks, December may become the month in which the war that reshaped Europe finally gives way to the agreement that reshapes the world.
Over the past three decades, international and commercial negotiation theory has been driven by a prevailing premise: the pursuit of efficiency through market integration.
After two days of talks in Beijing, the European Union and China have reached an agreement that could reduce Chinese exports of hybrid and plug-in hybrid cars by more than half over the next four years, preventing the arrival of several million vehicles.
Mercury is a toxic substance that is hazardous to both human health and the environment.
Opioids, a class of drugs derived from the opium poppy plant, can be either made from the plant directly, or synthesized in labs, according to the description from NIDA. Acting on the central nervous system, many prescription opioids are typically used to relieve severe pain, but long-term overdoses may bring drug reliance, addiction and even death because opioids can also make some people feel relaxed, happy or high
Coffee chains’ well development has been raising drink prices, and these companies’ sales and profits have been falling. In late February 2022, it was revealed that the prices of coffee drinks in chain coffee shops
July 4 is the US Independence Day. According to the U.S. Gun Violence Archive website, during the four-day holiday of this year’s Independence Day, there were shootings in almost every state in the United States, at least 220 people were shot and killed, and nearly 570 people were injured.
In response to economic globalization and regional economic integration, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, or RCEP, was initiated by the 10 ASEAN countries in 2012, inviting China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand to work together to develop a FTA.
On 23 June 2022, the Director-General of WHO convened an Emergency Committee under Article 48 of the International Health Regulations regarding the current outbreak of the monkeypox virus. According to the Committee
FBI Director Kash Patel hosted Montenegro’s Minister of Justice Bojan Bozovic and a Montenegrin delegation at FBI Headquarters on October 19, 2026
Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a high-stakes summit next month with U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping aimed at negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine
Since Kash Patel became FBI Director in 2025, the Bureau has portrayed its mission under the Trump administration as an aggressive, results-driven campaign against violent crime, transnational fraud, child exploitation, terrorism, and drug trafficking.
Fifty-seven thousand people on the largest island on earth, sitting atop rare earths and astride the melting sea lanes of the Arctic. In 2026 Greenland found itself the object of an American president’s ambition, a Danish reckoning, and a great-power scramble it never asked to join. This is the country behind the headlines.
Kyrgyzstan is a small, mountainous country with a booming economy, a fading reputation for revolution, and a president quietly turning the region’s most open political system into something that looks increasingly like its neighbors.
A profile of the archipelago the world suddenly wants to know.
A history of South Korea I recently read is titled *Shrimp to Whale* by Ramon Pacheco Pardo. The title alludes to a Korean proverb stating that when whales fight, the shrimp’s back gets broken.
Let us turn, however, to the situation in East Asia. On August 12, Putin visited Iturup Island in the Kuril chain—touring a fish processing plant and some schools—an event that sparked quite a controversy, so to speak.
It began with one sentence a prime minister didn’t need to say. Ten months later, Japan and China are locked in their worst rupture in a generation.
In what observers are calling the most consequential election in Bangladesh’s recent history, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) swept to a commanding parliamentary victory on Friday, ending nearly two decades in the political wilderness and setting the stage for a dramatic new chapter in the South Asian nation’s turbulent democratic journey.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – October 27, 2025 – In a significant diplomatic push, world leaders assembled in Malaysia on Monday to explore avenues for enhancing economic and trade relations, against the backdrop of impending U.S. tariffs.
Many global analysts predict that India will be the next great economic power: Goldman Sachs has predicted that it will become the world’s second-largest economy by 2075 and Martin Wolf of the Financial Times
On the 21st of October, the Takaichi has been selected as the 104th Prime Minister of Japan by the Japanese Parliament, which has stopped the persistent political deadlock situation after the resignation of Ishiba Shigeru on the September 7th.
The great-power struggle between China and the West now runs through a scattering of small island nations most Europeans know only from postcards.
Almost 98 percent of its people voted for independence. Its leaders have set a date: September 1, 2027.
The growth of the African continent has always been a topic of great interest among economic and financial analysts.
For four and a half centuries, the world’s default map made Europe and North America look larger than they are and the global south smaller.
