World leaders have been meeting, and failing for 29 years, to curb global warming, and in that time Earth has become a much hotter and deadlier planet. Trillions of tons of ice have disappeared as the burning of fossil fuels spewed billions of tons of heat-trapping gases into the air, …

Chinese President Xi Jinping has come up with a new global security proposal questioning implicitly the logic of the Indo-Pacific strategy, as well as the Quad involving Australia, Japan, India, and the United States. Xi proposed a new “Global Security Initiative” at the Boao Forum for Asia’s annual conference in …

Production lines can barely keep up, stock prices are soaring, and requests keep pouring in from across Europe. The global rearmament effort in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is grist to the mill for Swiss arms companies. Just days after Russian troops invaded Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz …