In December 2021, United States intelligence claimed China was helping Saudi Arabia develop ballistic missiles. Washington feared the Saudis were abandoning them in pursuit of a closer partnership with China. For some US policymakers, this pointed to the growing threat of China displacing the United States as the principal external power in the …

On December 6, TSMC held the opening ceremony for the arrival of the first batch of machines and equipment at its Arizona wafer fab. The event was attended by some of the most important personalities in the U.S., among whom were President Joe Biden, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, members …

Will Russia survive until 2084? Readers may recognize the query as an allusion to Andrei Amalrik’s historic 1969 essay, “Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?,” which itself was an allusion to Orwell’s famed novel. As with Amalrik’s question about the Soviet Union’s future, this query focuses on Russia’s future …