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CHINA WATCH How Strong Is China’s Rare-Earth Card? (Christina Lu, Foreign Policy) Washington is making big moves, but Beijing has a powerful hand. Chinese Engagement with Africa (Oluwatimilehin Sotubo ...

· Indian Suspect in Plot to Kill Sikh Separatist Extradited to US Nikhil Gupta has been accused by U.S. prosecutors of plotting with an Indian government official to kill a U.S. resident who advocated ...

Inside immigration courts around the country, immigrants who crossed the border illegally and were caught and released are required to appear before a judge for a preliminary hearing. But in a new ...

Tulsi Gabbard’s Nomination Is a National-Security Risk (Tom Nichols, The Atlantic) The Senate can stop her. The Great American Microchip Mobilization (Kelly Mcevers, Wired) Under Donald Trump and Joe ...

Iran Could Build a Nuclear Weapon Sooner Than You Think (Gregory S. Jones and Henry Sokolski, Foreign Policy) The history of other countries’ weapons programs shows that Tehran could complete and ...

Trump’s Actions Are Pushing Thousands of Experts to Flee Government (Hannah Natanson, Dan Diamond, Rachel Siegel, Jacob Bogage and Ian Duncan, Washington Post) The U.S.DOGE Service’s push for early ...

· Trump to Russia’s Rescue · Inside the Drugs Factory That Brought Assad’s Regime $5bn a Year · Syria Too Exhausted for a Conflict with Israel, Says Rebel Leader · Iran Has Lost Assad —and with Him ...

No, a Shadowy Figure Is Not Buying Tents for Columbia Student Protesters (David Gilert, Wired) A number of elected officials, including New York City Mayor Eric Adams, law enforcement officers, ...

Why Trump Can’t Buy Greenland (Scott R. Anderson, Lawfare) Media headlines have been seized by what appears to be President Trump’s latest idiosyncratic policy proposal: purchasing Greenland, which is ...

· Why Russia’s Vast Security Services Fell Short on Deadly Attack The factors behind the failure to prevent a terrorist attack include a distrust of foreign intelligence, a focus on Ukraine and a ...