The Chinese Communist Party is "at war with all faiths," according to former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback, who says America and its democratic allies must "stand firmly" in promoting religious freedom as a "common human right." Published November 12, 2022
President Biden faces thorny challenges on a major overseas trip that began Friday at a major climate summit in Egypt, where he walked a tightrope calling for global fossil fuel reductions even though his administration has been pushing for months for increased oil production from difficult Middle Eastern allies such as Saudi Arabia. Published November 8, 2022
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is seizing on the current moment of global distractions -- from Russia's war in Ukraine to rising China-Taiwan tensions and the still potent COVID-19 pandemic -- to advance his nuclear and missile capabilities with little response from the U.S. and its allies, a top former National Security Council official warns. Published November 1, 2022
Right-wing populist President Jair Bolsonaro's refusal Monday to concede in Brazil's knife-edge election triggered fears that political unrest may be imminent in Brazil, a key battleground country in the growing Cold War-style rivalry between the U.S. and China for influence over South America. Published October 31, 2022
As the price tag on American military aid to Ukraine rises and the U.S. economy teeters on the brink of a recession, cracks have begun to show the once rock-solid bipartisan support in Washington for providing Kyiv with the support it needs to fend off Russia's now 8-month-old invasion. Published October 27, 2022
Tensions between North and South Korea have risen this week, with both sides engaging in live-fire military drills while concerns swirl in Washington that North Korea's new war-fighting strategy centers on the potential use of preemptive "tactical" nuclear strikes. Published October 19, 2022
China's threat to absorb Taiwan -- through possible military action if necessary -- has sent nerves soaring in Taipei, while also sparking debate a half a world away in Washington over the long-held U.S. policy of "strategic ambiguity" over just exactly what the American military would do to protect the island democracy from a Chinese invasion. Published October 19, 2022
HSINCHU, Taiwan -- Hulking white factory buildings tower over the plush vegetation lining the road that snakes through this city, a place long known as Taiwan's "Silicon Valley," but increasingly identified as ground zero in a widening new Cold War between the United States and China. Published October 18, 2022
Like many younger people here, Elsa Lin has been doing some serious soul-searching lately about what might come of her life and how she will respond if the once-unthinkable -- war with China -- should break out. Published October 17, 2022
NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: The odds that Moscow will use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine are low because Russian President Vladimir Putin knows it "would be politically and militarily suicidal," Poland's top diplomat in Washington said. Published October 13, 2022
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sharply criticized President Biden's comment that the world faces the prospect of Armageddon after Russian President Vladimir Putin's warning. Published October 9, 2022
Russian forces pounded an apartment complex in southeastern Ukraine on Sunday, a day after a blast damaged a bridge linking Russia to the Crimean Peninsula. Published October 9, 2022
Hackers disrupted Iranian state TV on Saturday and briefly broadcast an image of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei surrounded by flames. Published October 9, 2022
The military alliance with South Korea is the strongest defense partnership the U.S. has, according to a former top U.S. commander in the region, but the U.S., South Korea and Japan must improve "trilateral cooperation" to prepare more effectively for North Korean threats. Published October 4, 2022
The world must prepare for the prospect that the Chinese militarily could invade Taiwan as soon as next year, the island democracy's foreign minister warned Thursday, saying Taiwan's people and defense forces are drawing inspiration from Ukraine's fight against Russia as they confront the idea of an attack by its massive neighbor across the Taiwan Strait. Published September 29, 2022
A top Taiwanese official on relations with mainland China warned Wednesday that Beijing under President Xi Jinping is embracing an extreme form of "closed-door nationalism" and "totalitarianism" that threatens the future of Taiwan, the U.S. and other democracies. Published September 28, 2022
U.S. President Biden and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said in separate speeches to the U.N. General Assembly Wednesday that they want to reach a new nuclear deal, but their remarks underscored how difficult striking an agreement will be. Published September 21, 2022
The top official at the United Nations warned Tuesday that mounting tensions -- spurred on by the war in Ukraine and climate change pressures -- have created a moment of "colossal global dysfunction" amid multiplying crises facing humanity. Published September 20, 2022
The top official at the United Nations is warning that global tensions -- spurred on by the war in Ukraine and the pressures of climate change -- are soaring and resulting in a moment of "colossal global dysfunction" amid multiplying crises facing humanity. Published September 20, 2022
A prominent European religious freedom group wants the top United Nations human rights body to examine what it claims has been a "campaign of intolerance, discrimination, and persecution of the Unification Church" in Japan following the July assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Published September 20, 2022
