Commanding and extending spheres of influence appears to restore a fading sense of grandeur. For China, Taiwan alone will not suffice. For Russia, Ukraine can never be adequate to fulfill Putin’s ...

In reality, however, the 1945 Yalta Conference implicitly accepted spheres of influence for the Soviet ... That leaves China, which has propped up Russia through its Ukranian adventure.

Donald Trump’s America, Vladimir Putin’s Russia, and Xi Jinping’s China, a trio which splits ... while respecting each other’s spheres of influence. The triumvirate would be based on ...

POTUS Donald Trump has been on a rampage ever since he was sworn into office for the second time some two months back. The flurry of executive decrees signed ha ...

UNDER President Donald Trump, the US is defecting from its decades-long position as an “open door” in preference for a global order that embraces spheres of influence ... proposed US tariffs are not ...

The Trump administration’s barely disguised contempt for traditional systems of global governance has prompted observers to suggest that the lip service paid to a rules-based order may be over and the ...

Trump and his team are right to recognize Panama’s strategic importance, but they are wrong in how they are approaching the ...

Instead, the world order may be reduced to one of competing spheres of influence, with much of the world’s politics divided between the US, Russia, China and an unmoored Europe. What is more ...