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Physicists have long explored how phenomena in groups of three can sow chaos. A new three-body problem, they warn, could lead to not only global races for new armaments but also thermonuclear war.

We could soon have a new tripolar world order, with China joining the United States and Russia at the helm of global affairs.

In terms of political power equations, the world has seen it all in about a century – “multipolar” to “bipolar” to “unipolar” (and perhaps even “powerless” for a while). If events of the recent past ...

TOKYO -- Japan is one of the major powers that is least sensitive to changes in the world order, thanks to its "privileged" U.S. protection from foreign aggression, and it continues to develop its ...