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Pressure is building for a change.
The state’s woes are of its own making. Since independence, successive governments implemented policies that repelled foreign investment.
Since COVID-19, the grounds for execution in North Korea have been shifting away from ordinary violent crime and toward outside information, religion,...
There was no "grand bargain" on Taiwan, but Taipei is still waiting for Trump to approve the latest arms package.
Three years ago, only a fraction of the global public held more favorable opinions of China than of the U.S. Today, China and even Russia have a...
Can India and the Netherlands transform their growing cooperation into a fully-fledged strategic partnership with a clear long-term vision?
Three lockdowns conditioned a population to accept the airtight, but invisible, seal that followed
Vietnam’s critical minerals strategy applies the doctrine of strategic autonomy to a new sector. The visit by Japan’s PM shows what that approach...
Southeast Asian countries are taking steps to counter drone threats. What’s really needed is a multilayered defense network.
Like other Global South countries, Pakistan would like to pursue cooperation with both the US and China. Will the Beijing summit facilitate that?
In Kazakhstan, although Victory Day celebrations still took place on May 9, the Soviet focus is increasingly being replaced by expressions of national...
The 2026 NPT Review Conference is unfolding against a backdrop of geopolitical upheaval. Absent strong U.S. leadership inside and outside the...
Pyongyang portrays AUKUS as a dangerous threat, but has it really influenced North Korea’s evolving grand strategy?
Rights groups say ASEAN and the international community must have direct access to Aung San Suu Kyi.
Why the new frame of “constructive China-U.S. relationship of strategic stability” matters.
Earlier this week, Senator Ronald dela Rosa, the enforcer of President Rodrigo Duterte's "war on drugs," fled to his Senate office to avoid arrest on...
Despite small steps in 2023 and 2024, the 2025 harvest reportedly saw a complete return to the mobilization of state employees into the fields.
There was a lot of grand talk about stabilizing the relationship, and few deliverables.
The current decade could become the first golden era of Uzbek football, exemplified by two youth championships and participation at the upcoming World...
Rahmon's four-day state visit also produced more than $8 billion in projected investment deals and confirmed Beijing's displacement of Moscow as...
For Seoul, what the leaders of the great superpowers left unsaid in Beijing may matter more than what they agreed on.
India thought it had an agreement with the RSP leadership on its interests being accommodated.
New survey data from Hong Kong Watch helps quantify the scale of the problem – including among Hong Kongers not engaged in public activism.
The Malaysian financier recently sought a pardon, despite being accused of masterminding the theft of $4.5 billion from the state investment fund.
Can “The Legend of Maula Jatt” win over Chinese audiences and pave the way for more Pakistani films?
Despite high reported internet penetration, millions of Nepalis – especially in rural areas – remain offline or struggle with unreliable and...
The Australian government has gone looking for oil in East and Southeast Asia with little or no understanding of where it actually comes from.
The austerity measures are aimed at dealing with oil and gas shortages and conserving foreign exchange.
According to his lawyer, Tashiev has been indicted on charges of plotting a coup and the case has been classified.
Hainan is today engaged in what may be China’s most radical economic experiment since the 1980s – and Taiwan is part of the rationale.
Military organizations must contend with operational realities, not political declarations. That's exactly why OPCON transfer is necessary.
Insights from Xiaobing Li.
Sponsored student visits are keeping international contact alive, but schools and analysts should ask questions about the intentions behind the visits...
Tokyo’s defense exports are becoming tools for building a new middle power security network across the Indo-Pacific.
Unlike in 2024, China sees an opportunity to influence Australia. That has led Beijing to refrain from criticism.
The upcoming meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Xi will be followed by a Putin-Xi summit. Will there be scope for triangular diplomacy?
Will the current oil supply shock hold back the region’s green transition, or accelerate it?
Dr. Anil Kakodkar, former chair of India's Atomic Energy Commission, joins the podcast to discuss the history and future of India’s three-stage...
Amid the expected pomp and circumstance, what can we expect from the Trump-Xi summit?
Pakistan is more confident, both in its military capabilities and diplomatic space regionally and beyond, and has moved beyond a purely defensive...
They have been terrorized by the Bangladesh army, Muslim settlers from the plains, and armed ethnic outfits for decades.
New Delhi has hedged more toward China without articulating any conditions. Beijing is taking full advantage.
Beijing rewrote two slogans before it sealed the country – once to rewrite history, once to prewrite the future.
Oil disruptions are cascading into fertilizer markets, weakening agriculture and putting South Asia’s food security at risk. We've seen this pattern...
KP police are the most targeted by terrorists. They are also the worst paid.
Following the 2025 regional drought, Kazakhstan authorities have warned about below-average reservoir levels and the possibility for summer shortages.
The meeting will be a stark display of Trump and Xi’s shared anti-human rights vision of transactional geopolitics. Accountability will have to come...
In what can only be described as collective punishment, the young son of detained artist Gao Zhen is being prevented from returning home to the United...
While Beijing has sought to diversify suppliers, expand storage capacity, and build alternative transport corridors, its energy security ultimately...
The 47-year-old is accused of a range of crimes, including corruption, misuse of government funds, and plotting to kill her former ally, President...
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