Author: John Digweed

By all outward appearances, China still projects an image of might: gleaming skyscrapers, an army of exporters, and a rising global presence. But beneath that polished surface lies a deeper...

By any measure, modern China is a marvel of transformation. In the lifetime of anyone over 40, the country has gone from mass famine and ideological terror to glimmering megacities...

By all appearances, the BRICS summit earlier this July was a show of global unity. Lofty declarations about reshaping world governance, ambitious investment pledges, and talk of an emerging financial...

It doesn’t look like much. A few cell phones. Some microphones. Maybe a half-meter-wide dish, the kind you’d expect to see in a college science lab. But make no mistake:...

By all appearances, the ceasefire was holding—at least in the way ceasefires often do in this region: tentatively, informally, and riddled with caveats. But yesterday, the uneasy calm shattered when...

By now, the myth of Russian invincibility is wearing thin—and not just on the battlefields of Ukraine. What we’re witnessing is something deeper, more volatile, and far more revealing: the...

By all appearances, the Russian economy is heading for the kind of cliff most regimes don’t survive. The numbers are dire, the language coming out of Moscow is alarmingly defensive,...

It’s a strange time to scroll through TikTok and stumble across Gen Z dancing in vintage World War II outfits, treating the prospect of global conflict like a quirky fashion...

When you listen to Vladimir Putin speak, it’s tempting to dismiss his words as bluster, the kind of grandiose posturing you’d expect from a man who’s clung to power for...

In a stunning reversal of battlefield dynamics, Russia’s military—once feared as the dominant airpower of the post-Soviet world—is being systematically dismantled by an opponent it underestimated from the outset: Ukraine....