WASHINGTON, May 29 -- The American Center for Law and Justice posted the following statement by Mike Pompeo, a former Secretary of State under President Trump: * * * American Deterrence Won't Be Restored if We Don't Get Ukraine Right Last week, Russia launched a brutal new wave of attacks against Ukraine - even using a hypersonic ballistic missile - and hit targets including a water supply facility and several schools. The message couldn't be clearer: Vladimir Putin has no intention of endin  more

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- During a statement to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in Vienna, British Ambassador Neil Holland declared that a Russian victory in Ukraine is increasingly implausible due to unsustainable military casualties and mounting domestic economic strain. Holland, the Head of the United Kingdom's Delegation to the OSCE, highlighted that the Kremlin's rate of battlefield advance has slowed markedly in 2026 despite high losses, which has prompted desperate re  more

WASHINGTON, May 29 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on May 28, 2026, by Tech Policy distinguished fellow James Lewis: * * * The MATCH Act and Multilateral Cooperation The MATCH Act would ask allies to follow the US on semiconductor equipment export restrictions. Unfortunately, key parts of this effort are divorced from reality. - The proposed MATCH Act is an ambitious effort to expand technology transfer controls and protect American security. It ca  more

WASHINGTON, May 29 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on May 28, 2026, by non-resident fellow Federico Borsari: * * * Reality Check: Breaking Free From China's Drone Ecosystem is Harder Than You Think China controls the global supply of drones. It will be challenging to cut this dependency. - China controls an estimated 80-90% of the global drone market and dominates the supply of critical minerals and raw materials, as well as the production of drone  more

WASHINGTON, May 29 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis posted the following commentary on May 28, 2026, by Ferenc Nemeth, research fellow and manager of Western Balkans and Eastern Europe Research Program at the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs: * * * Hungary's Blitz of Change The new prime minister is moving swiftly to uproot the old regime and to ensure Hungarians understand its excesses. - Hungarians are experiencing something extraordinary: real changes under new lead  more

WASHINGTON, May 29 -- The Jamestown Foundation issued the following commentary on May 28, 2026, by editorial assistant Jonah Reisboard in its China Brief: * * * The Chinese 'Rules and Future' of Global Trade Executive Summary: * The People's Republic of China (PRC) is shaping global trade standards in data control and customs clearance. These standards give preference to Chinese platforms that provide Beijing with end-to-end visibility into global shipping. * No Western equivalent of this s  more

WASHINGTON, May 29 -- The Jamestown Foundation issued the following commentary on May 28, 2026, by Paul Goble, specialist on ethnic and religious questions in Eurasia, in the foundation's Eurasia Daily Monitor: * * * Moscow's Arrests of Muslim Spiritual Directorate Officials Likely to Backfire Executive Summary: * Moscow has launched a campaign of arrests against officials of the Muslim Spiritual Directorates (MSDs) that the Russian government has long used to control a religion without eith  more

WASHINGTON, May 29 -- The Jamestown Foundation posted the following commentary on May 28, 2026, by John C. K. Daly, non-resident fellow at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute in Washington, in the foundation's Eurasia Daily Monitor: * * * Polish Army Set to be Largest in Europe Executive Summary: * Poland is rapidly expanding and modernizing its military amid Russia's war against Ukraine, aiming to build Europe's strongest army by 2030 through major spending increases, expanded troop numbers  more

WASHINGTON, May 30 -- The U.S. Department of War issued the following transcript: * * * Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Holds a Press Availability at the U.S. Embassy in Singapore * SECRETARY HEGSETH: Well, thank you all very much for being here. Thank you for your patience. It's been a long couple of days, but productive couple of days. I mean, I think what you see is that America is a global superpower with global obligations, and President Trump is laser focused on a great deal, and Iran ha  more

LONDON, England, May 30 -- London Business School posted the following news: * * * Ukraine's reconstruction could reshape Europe's future, says CEPR report * A new Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) paper, with a chapter authored by London Business School's Professor Helene Rey, argues that Ukraine's reconstruction could become one of the most important economic and strategic projects in modern European history. In The Wild East: Ukraine and the Remaking of Europe, economist Yuriy   more