During the Cold War, the United States occupied the apex of this triangular dynamic, pitting China and the USSR against each other. Today, it is Beijing that occupies that apex.

Returning to the moon is no longer a state mission, but a market.

[C]apitalizing on the White House's indecision, Israel is advancing its offensive in Lebanon.

[T]he great powers court rising generations when they sense shifting power.

So, to succeed in the trough of graft, a politician must have a profusion of scandals, so many of them all at once such that they would eventually overwhelm the system’s capacity to cope.

This move is a typical ethical dumping approach where the so-classified as first world nations unethically conduct research in third-world countries.

In a globalised economy, the knock-on effect is less of a surge but more of a deluge that reaches East Africa with alarming speed.

[Trump] disregarded Arab national interests, foremost among them the Palestinian issue and its legitimate, legal aspirations.

Another interesting feature is the absence of non-partisan journalists covering this war.

[I]t appears that the [U.S.] is capitulating in the talks.