The U.S. military deployed three carrier strike groups, 20 bombers and 12 nuclear attack submarines in the South China Sea last year as it apparently intensified its activities in the region, a new Chinese report found. In its report, the South China Sea Probing Initiative (SCSPI), a Beijing think-tank, accused …

A Gulf investor with an analytical and artistic bent, Ali al-Salim pinpointed the long-term challenges Saudi Arabia faces as it reestablishes relations with Iran. While most analysts focused on the immediate reduction of regional tensions and the possible opening for an end to the eight-year-long Saudi military intervention in Yemen …

Trade and financial flows have fallen well below their peaks, and poorer countries will bear the brunt. Globalization was meant to bring the world closer together, enmeshing advanced and developing economies in a web of mutually beneficial economic and financial linkages. From about the mid-1980s, trade and financial flows between …