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With Khaleda Zia’s Passing, an Important Era in Bangladeshi Politics Has Ended

Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia breathed her last at 6 am on December 30 at Dhaka’s Evercare Hospital. Zia’s passing after a...

yesterday 10

Shafi Md Mostofa

Samoa Just Had An Election. Was China the Real Winner?

When Samoa turned red at the ballot box in August 2025, it wasn’t just a political swing – it was a geopolitical shockwave. Susuga...

yesterday 10

Anne-Marie Brady

Does It Matter That Trump Invited Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to the 2026 G20 Summit?

As non-members, the G-20 has not been particularly relevant for either Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan. What’s relevant is the U.S. president’s attention...

yesterday 8

Catherine Putz

2025 in South Asia: A Year of Economic and Political Shocks

Every year is eventful in South Asia. But 2025 wasn’t just turbulent; it destabilized the region structurally. This was due to the convergence of...

yesterday 3

Rathindra Kuruwita

Outlook: Geopolitical Trends and Global Diplomacy in 2026

The Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their...

yesterday 4

Mercy A. Kuo

Previewing North Korea’s Grand Strategy for 2026

The year 2026 is set to be a pivotal year for North Korea, defined by a dual strategy: the domestic finalization of its nuclear status through a...

yesterday 3

Mitch Shin

2025: A Trumpian Year of Geopolitical Shifts in Asia

In this episode of The Diplomat’s Asia Geopolitics podcast, Ankit Panda (@nktpnd) and Katie Putz (@LadyPutz) reflect on 2025, a year dominated by...

yesterday 5

Ankit Panda And Catherine Putz

China’s Military Is Planning for Combat in Latin America

On December 19 , an affiliate of the state-run China Central Television (CCTV) ran a story about a recent Chinese military wargame in the city of...

yesterday 3

R. Evan Ellis

South Asia’s Strategic Shift: How India Lost the Diplomatic Initiative With Its Neighbors

India is facing a severe strain on its relations across all its borders. New Delhi, the economic giant of South Asia, is dealing with a...

yesterday 4

Syed Basim Raza

2025: Another Bad Year for India’s Women, Dalits, and Religious Minorities

On Christmas Day this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the morning service at the Cathedral Church of the Redemption in the capital, New...

yesterday 4

Kavita Chowdhury

The Japan-China Joint Communiqué and the Question of Taiwan

Tensions are rising in China-Japan relations over Taiwan. It started with Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae’s statement to the Diet on November 7,...

previous day 20

Inoue Masaya

India’s Bangladesh Dilemma: Strategic Partner or Political Liability?

For much of the last decade, Bangladesh was celebrated as the most successful example of India’s “ Neighborhood First ” policy — a stable,...

previous day 10

Swaran Singh

What Will Drive Mongolian Politics and Economy in 2026?

2025 was a tumultuous year for Mongolia’s politics and economic endeavors. With increasing numbers of intermittent protests in the nation’s...

previous day 6

Bolor Lkhaajav

North Korean Leader Inspects Building of Nuclear Submarine

According to North Korea’s state-controlled Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on December 25, Kim Jong Un, the supreme leader of North Korea,...

previous day 4

Mitch Shin

Jayalakshmi K on Why Delhi Becomes a Toxic Gas Chamber Every Winter

Air pollution in Delhi and its suburbs, which together comprise the National Capital Region (NCR), has been alarming in recent weeks. The problem...

previous day 1

Sudha Ramachandran

3rd Cambodia-Thailand Ceasefire Holds Amid Talks in China

A ceasefire brokered over Christmas between Cambodia and Thailand appeared to be holding since it came into force midday December 27 as talks aimed...

previous day 3

Luke Hunt

2025: The Military Emerges Stronger in Pakistan’s Power Equation

As 2025 draws to a close, Pakistan’s domestic political landscape reflects relative stability in civil-military relations. However, this calm is...

previous day 7

Umair Jamal

From ‘Lost Decades’ to Populist Surge: Japan’s Unexpected Political Shift

For a long time, Japan’s political system was treated as a success story in comparison with other democratic states. During the 2010s, while...

previous day 4

Jio Kamata

Why Mobs in Bangladesh Attacked the Offices of Daily Star and Prothom Alo

Zyma Islam, a senior reporter in the Daily Star, a leading English daily in Bangladesh, was at her work station in the newspaper’s office building...

previous day 1

Mubashar Hasan

What the Descent of India’s Biggest Airline Means for Its Booming Aviation Sector

The recent crisis involving IndiGo has exposed deep structural problems in India’s aviation sector. When the airline cancelled thousands of flights...

previous day 3

Sangita Dutta Gupta, M Manjula, And Tania Ghosh

China’s Military Reforms Since 2015: Is Time on Its Side?

After several years of planning and doctrinal experimentation, on the last day of 2015, the Chinese armed forces (the People’s Liberation Army,...

previous day 5

Dennis J. Blasko

Australia, Japan Establish Strategic Defense Cooperation Framework

Trust is now the most highly valued commodity in international relations. The global architecture that sought to govern relations between states is...

previous day 3

Grant Wyeth

2025 Recap: Five Key Developments in China’s Foreign Information Influence

In 2025, Beijing’s foreign information influence operations grew more sophisticated and insidious, leveraging emerging technologies, global...

previous day 3

Sarah Cook

TRACECA Is Back: Kazakhstan and the Reconfiguration of Eurasian Trade Routes

On the eve of entering the second quarter of the 21st century, the Eurasian transport system is undergoing a deep transformation. The ongoing war...

previous day 6

Timur Serikuly

How Indian Cinema Has Become a Patriotism Test

Indian cinema has morphed from entertainment into a potent vehicle for a new kind of “patriotism.” What’s changed is not the existence of...

26.12.2025 1

Asif Ullah Khan

Japan’s Long Return to Artificial Intelligence

In the neon-lit laboratories of 1980s Japan, the future seemed already written. While Silicon Valley was in its infancy, Tokyo was already pouring...

26.12.2025 1

Songruowen Ma And Kenddrick Chan

Why Is Myanmar’s Military Bothering to Hold an Election?

On December 28, Myanmar’s military will hold the first phase of a long-promised election. But don’t be fooled: The voting is set to be a total...

26.12.2025 1

Songruowen Ma And Kenddrick Chan

Japan Accelerates Defense Buildup With Record Budget and Expanded Unmanned Capabilities

Japan is accelerating its defense buildup amid rising geopolitical tensions, driven by mounting military pressure from three nuclear-armed...

26.12.2025 1

Takahashi Kosuke

Modi Government Rings Death Knell of India’s Legal Right to Employment

Twenty years ago, India enacted the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), which guaranteed 100 days of manual...

26.12.2025 9

Kavita Chowdhury

BNP’s Tarique Rahman Returns to Bangladesh After 17 Years in Exile

Tarique Rahman, the acting chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), returned to Dhaka on December 25 after 17 years in exile in...

26.12.2025 2

Saqlain Rizve

Convergence Amid Divergence: America, China, and the Emerging Minimalist World Order

Two recent episodes involving China-U.S. relations underline an unexpected convergence in the relationship and the potential for these episodes to...

26.12.2025 1

Rosemary Foot

What Pax Silica Reveals About India’s Vulnerability in Global Tech Supply Chains

The launch of a new U.S. alliance called Pax Silica to secure semiconductor manufacturing supply chains for the coming artificial intelligence (AI)...

25.12.2025 7

Venni V Krishna

Forced Labor, Taiwan and the Implications of the US-Malaysia Trade Agreement

As a key node in several lead firms’ electronics production supply chains, Malaysia’s recent trade agreement with the United States presents an...

25.12.2025 20

Brandon Hunter-Pazzara And Ray Cheng

This War-era Humanitarian Rescue Story Undercuts North Korean Propaganda

December 2025 marks the 75th anniversary of the largest wartime humanitarian evacuation in history. After the tide of the Korean War dramatically...

25.12.2025 2

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With Khaleda Zia’s Passing, an Important Era in Bangladeshi Politics Has Ended

Shafi Md Mostofa

Samoa Just Had An Election. Was China the Real Winner?

Anne-Marie Brady

Does It Matter That Trump Invited Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to the 2026 G20 Summit?

Catherine Putz

2025 in South Asia: A Year of Economic and Political Shocks

Rathindra Kuruwita

Outlook: Geopolitical Trends and Global Diplomacy in 2026

Mercy A. Kuo

Previewing North Korea’s Grand Strategy for 2026

Mitch Shin

2025: A Trumpian Year of Geopolitical Shifts in Asia

Ankit Panda And Catherine Putz

China’s Military Is Planning for Combat in Latin America

R. Evan Ellis

South Asia’s Strategic Shift: How India Lost the Diplomatic Initiative With Its Neighbors

Syed Basim Raza

2025: Another Bad Year for India’s Women, Dalits, and Religious Minorities

Kavita Chowdhury

The Japan-China Joint Communiqué and the Question of Taiwan

Inoue Masaya

India’s Bangladesh Dilemma: Strategic Partner or Political Liability?

Swaran Singh

What Will Drive Mongolian Politics and Economy in 2026?

Bolor Lkhaajav

North Korean Leader Inspects Building of Nuclear Submarine

Mitch Shin

Jayalakshmi K on Why Delhi Becomes a Toxic Gas Chamber Every Winter

Sudha Ramachandran

3rd Cambodia-Thailand Ceasefire Holds Amid Talks in China

Luke Hunt

2025: The Military Emerges Stronger in Pakistan’s Power Equation

Umair Jamal

From ‘Lost Decades’ to Populist Surge: Japan’s Unexpected Political Shift

Jio Kamata

Why Mobs in Bangladesh Attacked the Offices of Daily Star and Prothom Alo

Mubashar Hasan

What the Descent of India’s Biggest Airline Means for Its Booming Aviation Sector

Sangita Dutta Gupta, M Manjula, And Tania Ghosh

China’s Military Reforms Since 2015: Is Time on Its Side?

Dennis J. Blasko

Australia, Japan Establish Strategic Defense Cooperation Framework

Grant Wyeth

2025 Recap: Five Key Developments in China’s Foreign Information Influence

Sarah Cook

TRACECA Is Back: Kazakhstan and the Reconfiguration of Eurasian Trade Routes

Timur Serikuly

How Indian Cinema Has Become a Patriotism Test

Asif Ullah Khan

Japan’s Long Return to Artificial Intelligence

Songruowen Ma And Kenddrick Chan

Why Is Myanmar’s Military Bothering to Hold an Election?

Songruowen Ma And Kenddrick Chan

Japan Accelerates Defense Buildup With Record Budget and Expanded Unmanned Capabilities

Takahashi Kosuke

Modi Government Rings Death Knell of India’s Legal Right to Employment

Kavita Chowdhury

BNP’s Tarique Rahman Returns to Bangladesh After 17 Years in Exile

Saqlain Rizve

Convergence Amid Divergence: America, China, and the Emerging Minimalist World Order

Rosemary Foot

What Pax Silica Reveals About India’s Vulnerability in Global Tech Supply Chains

Venni V Krishna

Forced Labor, Taiwan and the Implications of the US-Malaysia Trade Agreement

Brandon Hunter-Pazzara And Ray Cheng

This War-era Humanitarian Rescue Story Undercuts North Korean Propaganda

Jonathan Corrado