Last Friday, the foreign ministers of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo met in Washington to sign an agreement to end 30 years of conflict in Africa’s Great Lakes region. We explore how control over critical minerals factors into the situation: www.usip.org/publications...

Now that Iran and Israel have tested each other’s abilities and resolve, will they de-escalate or go back to covert operations and upgrade their capabilities for the next round? Sarhang Hamasaeed explores what could come next in the rivalry and the region:

The war in #Iran is a direct threat to vital Chinese interests. But it also gives Beijing opportunities, particularly in relation to its strategic rivalry with the United States.

The status quo trajectory of U.S. policy toward North Korea is unsustainable, @frankaum.bsky.social and @nktpnd.bsky.social assess in a new analysis. It is clear that applying pressure does not lead to North Korean restraint; rather, it fuels provocations, they write.

As security tensions have risen between China and India in recent years, the economic imbalance between the two has only become more apparant, Sushant Singh writes. Why it would advance U.S. interests to help India de-risk:

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