Asia

So, what keeps me up at night? The current global semiconductor supply chain. Distinct capabilities exist in separate supply chains and manufacturing bases—lower end supply from China, higher-end [...]

You can also read the State of the Pandemic series’ take on the United States, Latin America, the Persian Gulf, East Asia, and the BRICS.  Some good news: Melissa Taylor (ZoG’s [...]

The Philippine government this week began the formal legal process of ejecting US forces from the country and ending the US-Philippine alliance. Chinese involvement in the decision isn’t so much [...]

On May 15 the U.S. government put Chinese telecoms giant Huawei and nearly all its affiliates and subsidiaries on an export black list, which prohibits American firms from selling them [...]

The economic conflict between the United States and China continues to ramp up. Earlier this week the Trump administration announced plans for tariffs on another $200 billion in Chinese exports [...]

Jump to other parts of this series: Intro, France, Germany, UK, Italy, and Canada. Japan was a latecomer to the modern world. The Home Islands are rugged [...]

By Peter Zeihan and Michael N. Nayebi-Oskoui There are many things that geopolitics teaches us. One of the more important lessons is that personalities rarely matter. The fate of peoples and [...]

In the aftermath of North Korea’s Sept 3 nuclear test, a Donald Trump Twitterstorm delivered its greatest disdain not to North Korea, but instead South Korea. Trump accused Seoul of being [...]

The technical aspects of a fully-functioning nuclear weapons program are daunting. A warhead is useless unless it can reach your target. Intercontinental ballistic missiles must be accurate, [...]

I’ve been in the foreign affairs, intelligence, analysis and context business for two decades now, and there are few things that annoy me more than North Korea. It is a small, perennially poor, [...]