Key Issues

Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping, middle right, sits across from Russian President Vladimir Putin during talks in Beijing in February 2022…

A U.S. congressional investigation raises concerns about Chinese-made cranes in U.S. ports. AFP/GETTY IMAGES THE WATCH STAFF Two United States congressional…

Finnish President Alexander Stubb said Russia should be expelled from the U.N. Security Council for engaging in an illegal war against Ukraine. AFP/GETTY IMAGES…

LT. COL. (RET.) WILLIAM HAGESTAD II/U.S. MARINE CORPS The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) economic and political position in Europe is extremely important…

U.S. Soldiers with Alpha Battery, 5th Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment (Long Range Fires Battalion), 1st Multi-Domain Task Force set up a M142 High…

Finnish Defense Minister Antti Häkkänen speaks to the media at a meeting of NATO defense ministers in June 2024. Finland is negotiating terms under which NATO…

U.S. Army North (ARNORTH) Commander Lt. Gen. John Evans visits Fort Pickett in Virginia shortly after taking command in December 2021. Evans retired as…

Chinese-style lions guard the entrance to the People’s Republic of China’s scientific station in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago. The PRC’s increased activity in…

The Russian training ship of the Baltic Fleet Smolnyy arrives at Havana harbor on July 27, 2024, as part of a fleet composed of the patrol vessel Neustrahimiy…

U.S. East Coast-based Naval Special Warfare Operators (SEALs) await extraction from the beach of Gambell, Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska, by U.S. Army MH-60M…