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Chinese Ship in Baltimore Harbor? Why the Jones Act Matters for Seapower and Innovation
By Rebecca L. Grant, Ph.D., Vice President, Lexington Institute. July 13,2026 On May 21, the Chinese vessel Jin Zhou Wan, owned and operated by Chinese shipping giant COSCO, took advantage of the national security waiver to move a cargo of asphalt from New Orleans, Louisiana, to New Haven, Connecticut, making the delivery on May 28, 2026. Then on June 29, Jin Zhou Wan carried asphalt from New Jersey to the Port of Baltimore. How did a Chinese vessel cut into the coastwise trade? It was all due to an unprecedented, lengthy waiver of the Jones Act.
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More Than Money: How the EU’s Predatory Approach to U.S. Tech and Space Impacts NATO (From Newsmax)
By Rebecca L. Grant, Ph.D., Vice President, Lexington Institute. July 10, 2026 President Donald J. Trump had harsh words for NATO as the Ankara summit began. But as Brigadier General Blaine Holt (USAF, Ret.) pointed out, it’s about more than money. That led to a wider discussion on Newsmax’s National Report of how the European Union’s tactics form a crucial backdrop to the American position at the NATO meetings. To sum up: the U.S. side is well aware that the EU likes to tax American tech companies, and their draft EU space laws seek to box out large constellations operated by the United States.
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Check out GPI Senior Advisor Sean Michael Cox latest interview on TRT World
Check out GPI Senior Advisor Sean Michael Cox latest interview on TRT World where he discussed about "Big NATO summit in Ankara: Trump says he will lift sanction on Türkiye after calling Ankara a vital US partner". #GPI #GPInstitut #NATO #Türkiye #NATOsummit2026
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Check out the latest interview with Paolo von Schirach on Al Jazeera
Check out the latest interview featuring GPI President Paolo von Schirach with Al Jazeera English, where he discusses "US Influence Challenged by Changing Global Order." In this interview, Paolo explores how shifting geopolitical dynamics, the rise of emerging powers, and evolving international alliances are reshaping the global balance of influence. #AlJazeera #Geopolitics #UnitedStates #GlobalOrder #ForeignPolicy #InternationalRelations #WorldPolitics #GlobalAffairs #GPI
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Spectrum Wars: Why There Is No National Security Case for Opening the Lower 900 MHz Band for a GPS Backup
By Rebecca L. Grant, Ph.D., Vice President, Lexington Institute. July 7, 2026 Spectrum is a major responsibility for the Federal Communications Commission, which is why the FCC is in the midst of internal deliberations about whether to open spectrum blocks to help with GPS resilience. The backstory is as follows. In 2025, the FCC set out to explore alternatives to GPS, the satellite global positioning system run by the United States Space Force and used by Americans every day. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr told a harrowing story of the intense solar flares that briefly disrupted GPS receivers and stranded tractors back in May 2024. The FCC inquiry aimed to “explore other Precision Navigation and Timing (PNT) systems that can be complements or alternatives to GPS, with an emphasis on complementary systems.”
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The Hidden Cost of AI’s Rapid Rise
By Dr. Nishakant Ojha June 27,2026 Every technological revolution comes with a bill. The steam engine blackened cities. The automobile reshaped landscapes. Social media rewired attention. Artificial intelligence is no different. The difference is that this bill is arriving before most people have even realized they've ordered the service. The problem with AI was never going to be technology. It was always going to be the speed. In a few short years it has slipped into our inboxes, our classrooms, and our decisions, used by hundreds of millions of people who would struggle to say how it works or what it takes to run.
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Saudi Arabia managing regional instability
by Paolo von Schirach — June 22,2026 WASHINGTON – As the custodian of Islamic Holy Sites, Saudi Arabia enjoys enormous prestige and influence in the Arab world and beyond. Furthermore, the Kingdom is OPEC’s leading member. As the biggest oil producer and exporter within the fossil fuel cartel, Saudi Arabia can influence key decisions on oil production quotas within OPEC, and therefore also influence global oil prices, this way giving Riyadh the ability to shape or at least affect the world economy.
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The UAE has chosen the West
by Paolo von Schirach June 16,2026 WASHINGTON – The Abraham Accords signed on September 15, 2020 radically changed the political geography of the Middle East. It was not a total transformation; but the Accords broke a fairly solid “no deals with Israel” vast front that had been the major feature of regional politics, even while taking into account the normalization of relations that led to the establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and Egypt (January 26, 1980) and then between Israel and Jordan, (November 27, 1994). Beyond diplomacy
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Washington Must Calibrate Expectations and Negotiate with Iran
By Ahmad Hashemi May 28,2026 President Donald Trump recently said that he was ready to resume strikes on Iran but held off on the plan at the request of Gulf Arab leaders. If anything, this is indicative of the fact that we have once again arrived at a perilous moment in American foreign policy—one that could drag us into another "forever war" in the Middle East. Yet, Trump’s military and national security advisors need to ask themselves if, militarily, the U.S. can achieve more than what has already been accomplished; considering that after a long 40-day campaign against Iran marked by real operational achievements but profound strategic failure, the limits of military power have been laid bare.
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