Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, having reversed his previous decision to resign, is now demanding that his governing partners – President Michel Aoun and Hezbollah – commit to regional neutrality. But with Saudi-Iranian tensions escalating, can Lebanon avoid becoming a new front in the two sides’ ongoing proxy war.
Oct 7, 2014 warns of sectarian conflict spreading to Lebanon, fueled by a worsening economy.
Nov 17, 2017 worries that Lebanon will become the next battlefield between the Middle East's Sunni and Shia powers.
Nov 28, 2017 fears that Lebanon could find itself at the center of another Saudi-Iranian proxy war in the region.
China has begun to build a parallel international order, centered on itself. If the European Union aids in its construction – even just by positioning itself on the fault line between China and the United States – it risks toppling key pillars of its own edifice and, eventually, collapsing altogether.
Now that the old rules governing macroeconomic cycles no longer seem to apply, it remains to be seen what might cause the next recession in the United States. But if recent history is our guide, the biggest threat stems not from the US Federal Reserve or any one sector of the economy, but rather from the White House.
Amid much discussion of the challenges facing the Chinese economy, the line-up of usual suspects typically excludes the most worrying scenario of all: popular unrest. While skeptics would contend that widespread protest against the regime and its policies is unlikely, events elsewhere suggest that China is not immune.
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