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COMMENTARY: Beijing turns five years of aid diplomacy into a showcase
China's Foreign Ministry hosted a high-level meeting in Beijing on July 28, 2026 to mark five years of the Global Development Initiative , under…
INVESTIGATION: Beijing turns rare earths into a snitch line, and Washington answers with chips
On July 1, 2026 , China's Ministry of Commerce brought Announcement No. 26 of 2026 into force, a public reporting mechanism for violations of…
OPINION: A knife outside an embassy, and Beijing turns it into a lesson
A knife, an embassy , and four months of silence: that is what the spokesman for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs , Lin Jian…
COMMENTARY: Beijing cries provocation, and Ren'ai Reef stays exactly where it was
China summoned the Philippine ambassador on July 21, 2026 to lodge a formal protest over what it called a "deliberate provocation" by Manila at…
COMMENTARY: Beshear tells McConnell to prove he can still serve, or resign
On Monday, July 27, 2026, Kentucky's Democratic governor , Andy Beshear , sent a letter to Republican senator Mitch McConnell asking him to address…
ANALYSIS: The House bans insider trading by lawmakers, fifteen years too late
On July 22, 2026, the House of Representatives passed the Stop Insider Trading Act by a vote of 232 to 198 , a bill…
COMMENTARY: The Tarp Stays Up, and So Does the Question Nobody Answers
A tarp. That is what currently covers part of the facade of the Kennedy Center , in Washington, while a federal appeals court decides…
COMMENTARY: Tehran swears negotiating isn't in its DNA, and says so on camera
Iranian diplomatic spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei declared at a press briefing on July 27, 2026, that negotiating with the United States is "not in our…
COMMENTARY: Poland puts a price tag on patience, and it looks like Bulgaria
Poland's Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz stated that Warsaw awaits Kyiv's final decision "in the coming weeks" on an exchange of MiG-29 fighters for Ukrainian…