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We are seeing the return of overt geopolitics: a style of major power politics that does not bother to hide behind international law or multilateral norms. That’s good news for China – and bad news fo...
The USS John F. Kennedy’s progress toward service highlights both the US Navy’s investment in carriers and the mounting pressure on a fleet stretched thin by global commitments. This month...
The United States Navy’s decision to shoot down an Iranian drone in the Arabian Sea is not in itself extraordinary. What is, however, is how routine such encounters have become and how thin the ...
Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. Japan’s political equilibrium is on the ballotScott Foster reports that Japan’s Febru...
China’s latest high-power microwave (HPM) breakthrough, a powerful truck-mountable system described by Chinese researchers and Chinese media as a potential counter to Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) const...
TOKYO — Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s party looks set to strengthen its hold on parliament in Sunday’s election, which, if so, will free her to pump new waves of stimulus into Japan’s underperformin...
The New START treaty, the last remaining agreement constraining Russian and US nuclear weapons, lapsed on February 4. There are no negotiations to extend the terms of the treaty, either. As US Preside...
In 1938, watching the rise of totalitarianism in Europe and the looming shadow of global conflict, Bertrand Russell defined “naked power.” In his seminal work Power: A New Social Analysis ...
Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd (CATL), the world’s largest electric vehicle battery maker, has delivered a cluster of upbeat announcements within the past one week. These included new investme...
The sixteen-day general election campaign enters its final day of campaigning with the country in the throes of heavy snowfall and plunging temperatures. The Japanese Meteorological Agency predic...
As the United States weighs fresh strikes on Iran, the prospect of a wider regional conflict is once again coming into focus. For many of Washington’s allies, the question is no longer whether escalat...
Indonesia’s investment authority recently informed Parliament that PT Indonesia Tsingshan Stainless Steel, a Chinese major nickel smelter in Central Sulawesi, has never submitted its mandatory Investm...
When Brussels convinced itself that regulation could substitute for power and values for capacity, leverage migrated elsewhere. Europe rendered its own vulnerabilities exploitable; Washington and Beij...
Japan’s general election campaign ended on Saturday with major party leaders holding competing rallies across Tokyo. This has by any definition been a strange campaign. It was unexpected; it was the s...
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Beside their shared modern origins, of the many similarities between the internet and ufology, both concern communication: between humans, between humans and aliens, between humans and machines, betwe...
Out there in the Universe, we’re most aware of what we see: of all the forms of light that arrive in our eyes, instruments, telescopes, and detectors. Much more difficult to see, as well as unde...
The life of Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose illuminates how scientific genius can emerge from the most unexpected quarters- by Somaditya (Soma) BanerjeeRead on Aeon
Despite associations with the idle rich, the fact that inheritances are rising is a sign of a healthy, growing economy- by Daniel WaldenströmRead on Aeon
Where does the mind go in solitary confinement? An evocative animation exploring three individual experiences- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
