It’s widely accepted that the South China Sea is a geopolitical flashpoint that could inadvertently trigger a regional, even international conflict. But how did it get to this point? Broadly speaking theSouth China Sea disputeboils down to the question of how borders should be delineated in the...
This essay will probe into the particulars of this occurrence, scrutinizing its significance and positioning it within the more expansive framework of regional safety dynamics. The main thesis argues that the potential for limited military conflict in the South China Sea is more discernible than a di...
The appalling fighting continues with no end in sight, but the chances that the conflict will affect global investors’ returns look much lower than they did last year. Even the , which seems to deliver new versions of human tragedy with each new chapter, has offered a few glimmers ...
The war in Ukraine, as the first high-intensity near-symmetrical conflict of the 21st century, has offered some critical lessons on modern warfare and the use of artillery systems, whose role is constantly evolving in a technologically advanced battlefield, where traditional firepower is enhanced by...
Current events muddy the geopolitical outlook and raise the risk of more significant conflict escalation in the year ahead. But what is crystal clear is geopolitics has become a multiverse: a complex mix of alliances and rivalries, with overlapping bilateral, regional and other types of institutional...
It is hard to forecast the next hot spot for conflict or crisis. There are perennially volatile areas such as the Middle East, where Israel and Iran have been fighting a proxy battle that escalated in April 2024. And in East Asia there are several examples including China invading Taiwan and...
China and Japan are in the midst of a long-standing feud over a separate group of islands in the East China Sea, which has greater potential for military conflict than the South China Sea, according to IHS' Singh. Read More'New Silk Road' highlights China's two-speed reform ...
It is hard to forecast the next hot spot for conflict or crisis. There are perennially volatile areas such as the Middle East, where Israel and Iran have been fighting a proxy battle that escalated in April 2024. And in East Asia there are several examples including China invading Taiwan and...
monitoring the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea, with nearly half (48%) of investors identifying it as the risk most likely to impact global markets in the next 24 months, given its ties to asset prices. Just over a quarter (27%) said military conflict in the Middle East is the ...
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen was far from unusual in setting a pessimistic tone, saying the world had entered an era of “conflict and confrontation, of fragmentation and fear”. She added: “There is no doubt we face the greatest risk to the global order in the postwar...