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n 2014, Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou and his wife paid a fine of $1.2 million for having a third child, which was against the law.

I’ve seen this movie already. I don’t want to see it again.

Flurries of last-minute changes in alliances often happen just before great powers go to a great war

Geoengineering may be our only hope to limit dangerous feedbacks

King Charles III and Queen Camilla made a two-day visit to Canada this week to open the 45th parliament of his Canadian domain.

The current strategy of the Israel Defence Force involves starving the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip into leaving the entire territory.

The U.S. nuclear guarantee, the foundational doctrine of NATO’s deterrence strategy, was an article of faith for all members. Now it’s gone.

Israel may or may not have God on its side (opinions vary), but it certainly has the U.S. government on its side, and that seems to be enough.

India and Pakistan have had several shooting matches since they carried out a total of nine underground nuclear weapons tests in 1998.

Perhaps because there are never really all that many papabile.

Submission to erratic U.S. president may not work, since he lies. A lot.

Trump's "tariffs on everybody" policy offers a glimpse of what may come: the U.S. against the world, with Russia its only great power ally