To truly get an impression of the place, the only way is by traveling it, she believes. For the next 44 years, Rawson ...

Japan uses the term Sea of Japan to refer to the body of water separating it from the Korean Peninsula; South Korea calls it ...

China has considerable leverage over Iran: Chinese companies purchased over 90 percent of Iran’s oil exports last year, often at deep discounts to world prices, according to Kpler, a Vienna ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to ...

Portraying China’s presence in Africa with flags on maps can distort African states’ sovereignty and their power to make ...

However, in recent decades, Africa's relationship with the global system has begun to shift, and China has been a key ...

Given the increasing importance of rare earths, countries with large reserves are gaining significant economic and political influence.

China, Russia and Iran have launched joint naval drills on the Gulf of Oman in a move intended to get the West's attention. Today's “Security Belt-2025” exercises will boast a flotilla of ...

The U.S. Navy has only four active public shipyards. Meanwhile, China has at least 35 sites with known ties to military or ...

Other inscriptions say things like “here is where scorpions are born” or this inscription over a largely empty Africa, “it is ...