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Over 60% of expected PLA attendees absent from Party plenum amid corruption crackdown
BEIJING (Realist English). President Xi Jinping’s tightening grip over China’s armed forces was on full display this autumn as an...
China’s sweeping purge of PLA generals intensifies as Xi’s anti-corruption campaign reaches highest ranks
BEIJING (Realist English). Even by the standards of President Xi Jinping’s anti-graft drive, the scale of recent investigations into alleged...
Xi Jinping removes top general and eight senior PLA commanders in sweeping military purge
BEIJING (Realist English). Chinese President Xi Jinping has dismissed General He Weidong, the second-highest-ranking officer in the People’s Liberation Army...
Beijing marks 80 years since Japan’s surrender with massive military parade
BEIJING (Realist English). China marked the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender and the end of the Second World War with...
China’s military-civil fusion opens defence sector to private firms — but at a cost
BEIJING (Realist English). For years, China’s promises to allow private firms into the defence sector remained largely symbolic. But since...
China and U.S. hold 2025 maritime safety talks in Hawaii amid efforts to manage military risks
HONOLULU (Realist English). China and the United States convened the second working-group meeting and the 2025 annual session under the...
CBO cuts $1 trillion from Trump’s projected tariff revenues
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The Congressional Budget Office has sharply reduced its forecast for tariff revenues, cutting an estimated $1 trillion...
Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene to resign from Congress after rift with Trump
WASHINGTON (Realist English). Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of the most polarizing figures in US politics, announced on Friday that...
Putin says Russia ready for peace talks but awaits U.S.-Ukraine clarity on Trump’s proposal
MOSCOW (Realist English). President Vladimir Putin convened a video-link meeting of Russia’s Security Council on Friday, bringing together senior officials...
An unusual phenomenon at the Church of the Holy Savior in Shushi
YEREVAN (Realist English). In the distant year 1979, as a third-year university student, I used to visit the Church of...
War with Iran seen as inevitable, Armenia warned of looming regional storm
YEREVAN (Realist English). The war with Iran is drawing ever closer. And once again, this pulls Armenia into a zone...
Putin, Trump and Zelensky: is a trilateral meeting necessary?
MOSCOW (Realist English). Although more than a week has passed since the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S....
Russia’s elite: from Soviet nomenklatura to state corporations
MOSCOW (Realist English). The specificity of the Russian elite is defined by the nature of its origins: it grew out...
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