On April 2, 2025—a date President Trump proclaimed “Liberation Day”—the administration announced the most sweeping tariff hike since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, the 1930 law best remembered for ...

Please join the Impossible State podcast for a special discussion on the final act of the South Korean political crisis trilogy, which has embroiled the country for over 18 weeks, and played out on ...

On Wednesday, March 26, the Trump administration announced another tariff hike in the name of countering trade practices that impair U.S. national security. The White House announced a 25 percent ...

The U.S.-Japan-ROK trilateral relationship enables the United States and its Indo-Pacific partners to address regional challenges. What developments have taken place since the Camp David Summit in ...

In 2021, Vietnam began expanding some of its small- and medium-sized outposts in the Spratly Islands through dredging and landfill. As of now, that effort has resulted in over 2,200 acres of new land ...

North Korea’s cyberattacks have targeted a wide range of sectors globally, including medical institutions, defense contractors, and cryptocurrency platforms. Notably, the majority of these attacks ...

As discussed in the previous commentary, deteriorating relations between the United States and South Africa have been a culmination of policy missteps by the latter’s government in a manner that has ...

With less than 24 hours before sweeping new taxes on foreign goods take effect, there remains little clarity on what these policies will entail—a fitting reflection of the first few months of the ...

Guatemala’s geographic proximity to the United States and Mexico gives it an advantage when trying to lure North American businesses seeking to shorten and strengthen their supply chain routes. The ...

After Ukraine and Russia’s agreement to a Black Sea ceasefire as part of broader talks being brokered by the United States in Saudi Arabia, the next step is to design a coalition maritime force to ...

On Friday, March 28, Myanmar suffered a devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake, centered near its second-largest city of Mandalay. An estimated 10,000 buildings collapsed, roads buckled, and the airport ...

President Trump’s repeated on again, off again tariff threats against the United States’ two largest trading partners, Canada and Mexico, along with his musings about making Canada the fifty-first ...