Order from Chaos

Protest In Bordeaux Against The Macron's Pension Reform on this new day of national strike organized this Tuesday, March 28, 2023. 80,000 people according to the unions and 11,000 according to the prefecture. (Photo by Fabien Pallueau/NurPhoto)NO USE FRANCE

Unrest in France challenges Macron’s ambitions

Tara Varma · Friday, March 31, 2023

Clouds along the city skyline in Melbourne, Friday, February 3, 2023. (AAP Image/Diego Fedele) NO ARCHIVINGNo Use Australia. No Use New Zealand.

Australia’s caution on Taiwan may not last

Richard McGregor

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (2nd from L) visits the Ground Self-Defense Force's Asaka base straddling Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture on Nov. 27, 2021. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)==KyodoNO USE JAPAN

Japan’s new security policies: A long road to full implementation

Adam P. Liff and Jeffrey W. Hornung

Monday, March 27, 2023

FILE PHOTO: A view shows the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict outside the city of Enerhodar in the Zaporizhzhia region, Russian-controlled Ukraine, November 24, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko/File Photo

What to do about the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

Amy J. Nelson and Chinon Norteman

Thursday, March 23, 2023

South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida hold a joint news conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, Japan March 16, 2023. Kiyoshi Ota/Pool via REUTERS

South Korea-Japan rapprochement creates new opportunities in the Indo-Pacific

Friday, March 17, 2023

A military officer adjusts a Russian flag ahead of a welcome ceremony hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping for Russian President Vladimir Putin outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China June 8, 2018. REUTERS/Jason Lee

Fatalism is not an option for addressing China-Russia relations

Friday, March 17, 2023

Russia's President Vladimir Putin holds talks with China's President Xi Jinping via a video link from Moscow, Russia, December 30, 2022. Sputnik/Mikhail Kuravlev/Kremlin via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Taiwan is feeling the pressure from Russian and Chinese autocracy

Thursday, March 16, 2023

People take part in a protest in support of the National Electoral Institute (INE) and against President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's plan to reform the electoral authority, in Mexico City, Mexico, February 26, 2023. REUTERS/Luis Cortes

Mexico takes another step toward its authoritarian past

Valerie Wirtschafter and Arturo Sarukhan

Thursday, March 16, 2023

FILE PHOTO: The Virginia-class USS North Dakota (SSN 784) submarine is seen during bravo sea trials in this U.S. Navy handout picture taken in the Atlantic Ocean August 18, 2013. The Navy commissioned its newest attack submarine North Dakota, during a ceremony October 25, 2014, at Submarine Base New London in Groton, Connecticut, defense officials announced. REUTERS/U.S. Navy/Handout (MID-SEA - Tags: MILITARY) THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS/File Photo

Around the halls: AUKUS defines an emerging alliance at sea

Bruce Jones, Michael E. O’Hanlon, Ryan Hass, Amy J. Nelson, Tom Stefanick, Constanze Stelzenmüller, Caitlin Talmadge, and Andrew Yeo

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

U.S. President Joe Biden walks to board a plane following an Arab summit, at King Abdulaziz International Airprot, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, July 16, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

Should “Islam” matter in US foreign policy?

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Handout photo dated January 26, 2023 shows Air Force 33rd Search and Rescue Squadron prepares to land aboard Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold (DDG 65) in the Philippine Sea. The United States and the Philippines on Thursday announced plans to expand America's military presence in the Southeast Asian nation, with access to four more bases as they seek to deter China’s increasingly aggressive actions toward Taiwan and in the disputed South China Sea. The agreement was reached as US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was in the country for talks about deploying US forces and weapons in more Philippine military camps. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class RuKiyah Mack via ABACAPRESS.COM

The Philippines’ evolving view on Taiwan: From passivity to active involvement

Renato Cruz De Castro

Thursday, March 9, 2023

Chinese President Xi Jinping (front row, C) and others sing the national anthem during the opening ceremony of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 5, 2023. (Kyodo)==KyodoNO USE JAPAN

China’s new State Council: What analysts might have missed

Cheng Li and Mallie Prytherch

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Israel Defence Forces soldiers preventing access for locals and activists from olive plantations during harvest season in Salfit, The West Bank on Oct. 11, 2021. The plantation on the outskirts of the town of Salfit was annexed in the last year to a new Jewish outpost - Avi view farm, although Plestinians hold land deeds for the land. During an attempt to break the white line zoning a closed military zone in the plantations, the army used stun grenades and arrested three activists. (Photo by Matan Golan/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Violence in the West Bank is a nightmare for Netanyahu

Monday, March 6, 2023

View of the old Sanaa city in Sanaa January 14, 2012. REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi (YEMEN - Tags: CITYSPACE SOCIETY)

Jimmy Carter’s forgotten crisis in Yemen

Friday, March 3, 2023

FILE PHOTO: A boy uses a bamboo stick to adjust national flags at an overhead bridge ahead of Pakistan's Independence Day, in Islamabad, Pakistan August 10, 2018. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood

The Biden administration’s two-track Pakistan policy misses the mark

Thursday, March 2, 2023

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