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Nassir Hussein Kahin

Sep 17, 2026, 8:28 PM

US vs China in the Red Sea: Berbera, Taiwan, Israel and the Houthis

HOASR geopolitical illustration examining the widening US-China competition across Africa and the Red Sea, including China’s military presence in Djibouti, Camp Lemonnier, Somaliland’s partnership with Taiwan, Israel’s recognition of Somaliland, the Houthi threat around Bab el-Mandeb, Berbera’s strategic position and the global competition over critical minerals, trade routes and clean-energy supply chains.

The contest around Somaliland is part of a wider struggle over trade, critical minerals, infrastructure, political influence and military access. As US–China rivalry deepens across Africa, the Red Sea is becoming one of its most sensitive meeting points. President Abdirahman...

Sep 17, 2026, 6:50 AM

The Kanaani Diplomacy™ Doctrine

Diplomatia Kanaaniensis America at the Center of a New Soft-Diplomacy Model for Preserving Israel’s Jerusalem-Born Living Heritage A Brooklyn-Born Model for America's Next Century of International Cooperation By Animal Chaplain and Rabbi Mikhail Salita Founder of the Brooklyn-based Kanaani Revival Program and The...

David Rosh Pina

Sep 16, 2026, 9:52 PM

It’s the intelligence, stupid

The Next Breakthrough Is Intelligence, Not Hardware I am continuing my series on the computer vision ecosystem. Everything needed to build a human-augmentation hardware device is within our reach: a camera module smaller than a fingernail, with enough resolution to...

Sep 15, 2026, 9:07 PM

Cooperation Without Trust: What Trump and Xi Can Actually Agree On About AI

The nature of cooperation on AI

On September 24, Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to visit the White House. President Trump announced the date in July and said artificial intelligence would be on the agenda. The two leaders had already discussed AI when Trump...

Hande Gençünal

Sep 15, 2026, 6:27 AM

One Ship Gets Protected, One Cow Doesn’t

Israel doesn't guard all its strategic assets with the same care. Nothing shows this more clearly than the different treatment two sales received, one a shipping company, the other a dairy cooperative. Two Founding Companies ZIM and Tnuva were both born...

Sep 15, 2026, 3:22 AM

The 2026 BRICS Declaration: The Grammar of EMDE-Centrism

PM Narendra Modi at BRICS Summit Session on “Inclusive Global Governance and Strengthening Multilateralism” at Bharat Mandapam, in New Delhi on September 12, 2026. (Photo Credit: PIB/Govt. of India).

From a bureaucratic category to a language of collective leverage, the New Delhi Declaration shows how BRICS is weaving EMDEs into its claims over capital, representation, and the architecture of global economic governance. On September 12, 2026, BRICS leaders unanimously...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Sep 11, 2026, 7:51 PM

Israel Should Lead the Pacific AI Agenda

Israel already successfully exports its sophisticated water systems, cyber weapons, and anti-missile infrastructure to global markets. However, Jerusalem has somehow failed to establish an artificial intelligence footprint among the critical Pacific island states that routinely defend the Jewish state...

Sep 9, 2026, 9:18 PM

Cairo’s Pivot, Ethiopia’s Alignment: Horn of Africa’s Security Shift

While Cairo issues stern warnings against foreign naval presence in the Red Sea and deepens its strategic embrace of Beijing, a pivotal counter-diplomatic mission is underway in Washington. President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi “Irro” of Somaliland has arrived in the...

Sep 6, 2026, 2:37 PM

The Illusion of Permanence

Power, Inequality, and the Cycle of Empires

Sep 6, 2026, 1:34 PM

Preventive Restitution: A New Frontier in International Law

I want to share with The Times of Israel readers a scholarly article that I have co-authored with Dr. Dmytro Hrebeniuk, Associate Professor at the National University “Odesa Law Academy,” where I am currently pursuing my PhD in international...

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