The Chinese-dominated Pakistani port city of Gwadar — the crown jewel of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) — increasingly looks like a powder keg that has exploded.

Putin is keen on inciting “hybrid attacks” against the West to de-stabilize it. He may well end up inadvertently stabilizing it.

All wars are hybrid, but war — and the notion of hybrid — have changed.

Stephan Richter spoke to Marketplace’s David Brancaccio about the issues Germany’s new chancellor Olaf Scholz will face in office.

Examining the parallels in the political style and performance of Angela Merkel and Barack Obama, the past decade’s transatlantic power couple.

Religious and ethnic intolerance around the world threatens to spin out of control.

When Erdogan leaves the political scene, it will be with a public mixture of contempt and relief – not with the reverence that was bestowed upon Atatürk.

In next year’s presidential election, will France retreat from reason and science to embrace radical politics?

A history retold about India and China from 1949 to 1962, a formative and yet self-destructive phase in a troubled relationship.

The EU and the U.S. need to address the real technology competitiveness challenge, which is China.