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COP17, which will be hosted by Mongolia in August, “comes at a pivotal moment for global action on land.”
The exercise highlights growing China-Russia naval interoperability while exposing competing interpretations of maritime law.
Much of the world still views Myanmar through a narrow diplomatic lens that cannot encompass the full political complexity of its conflict.
Global tech governance is taking an institutional turn as a bloc-based system continues to solidify.
The law forbids publicly damaging, removing, or defacing a Japanese flag in a manner likely to cause others “extreme discomfort or disgust.”
Journalism can help ensure that climate governance is guided by transparency, accountability, and justice.
The two sides traded accusations over the confrontation at Second Thomas Shoal, a long-standing focus of maritime tensions between Manila and Beijing.
The bloc's foreign ministers are set to call for "the restoration of the safe, unimpeded, and continuous transit passage of vessels and aircraft in...
Many of China’s initial, ambitious Arctic objectives collided with political and logistical realities. Now Beijing is testing out an “Arctic...
As Kazakhstan pushes forward to become a leading tech hub in the region, China continues to prove itself a crucial partner.
The Cockroach Janata Party is leading a youth-heavy protest movement that embodies the public anger with the BJP.
Infrastructure development, with a catch.
Sara Duterte claimed that she is "bloodied but unbowed" in the face of persecution by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and his administration.
Amid a rise in smuggling, Anutin Charnvirakul has recently come out against the policy he once championed: the decriminalization of marijuana.
Brussels no longer sees China only as an economic actor. It sees China as a challenge to the organization of global order itself.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong said that she was “deeply frustrated and bitterly disappointed" at the leniency of the charges announced on Friday.
There are persistent misunderstandings about what the intelligence partnership is, and what it actually does.
Last week, the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar said that agreeing to the meeting was a sign of the ASEAN special envoy's "timidity and poor...
The Falepili Union offers Tuvaluans “mobility with dignity.” But unless Australia also protects Tuvalu’s workforce, the landmark agreement could...
The World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization may prove to be China's most ambitious effort yet to shape the future deployment and...
Nuclear reactor exports are becoming an increasingly important arena of strategic competition.
The trilateral is more feasible – and more important – than ever before.
Under discussion for 20 years, the CKU Railway is finally under construction with some hurdles surpassed and other challenges ahead.
The visits extend a string of high-level exchanges as Beijing works to keep pace with Pyongyang’s deepening ties with Moscow.
Since the inception of the IBGs, they have been framed as formations to launch offensive operations against Pakistan under the nuclear overhang. Now...
Taiwan’s diplomatic space is shrinking along a vital Pacific energy route.
Pakistan continues to view the Islamabad MoU that it facilitated as the most viable framework for de-escalation.
Amid generational shifts and Trump-era transactionalism in the U.S., Taiwan should take a page from Singapore’s book.
Brussels should use the leverage before it slips away.
Both sides are trying to sustain trade talks and practical cooperation, but the EU’s new security definition of China may complicate this progress.
“When a language becomes accessible, it becomes visible. And when it becomes visible, it becomes part of international scholarship and global...
The reports come on top of the 300 people already reported missing or drowned in the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal in 2026.
A conversation with journalist and advocate Nathan Paul Southern.
The Department of Foreign Affairs demanded the "immediate takedown” of the AI-generated video, in which the Philippines was depicted as a monkey.
The nation is looking to expand and balance its economic and security relationships – and India is at the top of the list.
The BJP government, whose support base includes traditionalist Hindus, moved to drop eggs from the midday meal program in Kolkata.
The real danger lies not in the immediate scarcity of Indus water flowing from India into Pakistan but in the widening gap between how they interpret...
International sport offers something that conventional diplomacy often cannot: a stage on which Taiwan can appear before a global audience.
One woman’s attempt to stand for election as mahalla chairperson reveals the barriers that remain to inclusive self-government in Uzbekistan.
For China, the decision to sell the J-35 would carry ramifications far exceeding those of any previous Chinese arms sale.
A controversy centered on Bangladesh's Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) exam brought students back out to protest.
ASEAN special envoy Ma. Theresa Lazaro held separate talks with military-backed negotiators and six rebel groups in Pattaya earlier this week.
The High Court ruled that a 2024 article on the city-state's luxury real estate market maliciously defamed ministers Tan See Leng and K. Shanmugam.
The growing negative sentiment about the community bears a disturbing resemblance to the narratives that justified their mass expulsion from Myanmar...
Operation Shaban is in response to a deadly terrorist attack on July 7 in the Mangi Dam area, which claimed the lives of 27 police personnel.
A biopic on human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra puts the spotlight on thousands of enforced disappearances and secret cremations carried out by...
The need to support elderly parents, particularly in rural areas, is an underappreciated factor in China's declining birth rate.
India’s diplomatic outreach to the Taliban has increased tremendously over the last year.
Controversy is raging over how – and how much – to shave the prosecutors’ inordinate powers.