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This week’s highlights:

- When China Gets Its Own Mythos by Michael Sulmeyer

- An Iranian Vision of the New Middle East by M. Javad Zarif

- The Iran Cease-Fire Was Doomed to Fail by Neil Quilliam and Sanam Vakil

- A Dangerous Game in the Arctic by Heather A. Conley

- Podcast: Salam Fayyad discusses the future of Palestine

- America’s Trillion-Dollar Failure by Ro Khanna

- China’s Moment of Weakness by Logan Wright

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At the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, July 2026

When China Gets Its Own Mythos

Preparing for an AI Cyber Crisis

By Michael Sulmeyer

A mock Iranian missile in Tehran, July 2026

An Iranian Vision of the New Middle East

Ending the War and Sustaining the Peace Requires a New Approach to Regional Security

By M. Javad Zarif

Rallying support for Iranian armed forces in Tehran, Iran, June 2025

The Iran Cease-Fire Was Doomed to Fail

Why Transactionalism Won’t Deliver Peace in the Middle East

By Neil Quilliam and Sanam Vakil

A Norwegian ship during a military exercise in the Ofotfjord, Norway, March 2026

A Dangerous Game in the Arctic

Trump’s Demands Could Derail Progress on Allied Defense

By Heather A. Conley

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