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Brahma Chellaney, Opinion ContributorThe Hill |
Voters swept aside the two main communist parties that had shaped Nepali politics for years, reducing them to minor players in parliament.
By any conventional measure of power, the U.S. remains formidable. Its military power is unmatched, and it still possesses the world’s largest...
By any conventional measure of power, the U.S. remains formidable. Its military power is unmatched, and it still possesses the world’s largest...
For Washington, this is both a gift and a challenge.
The “rules-based international order” was never a set of neutral rules. It was a story the U.S. told — about itself, its power and its right to...
The Biden-era policy of isolating one of the world’s largest suppliers of rare earths only keeps strengthening China’s hand.
The Quad — the U.S., Japan, India and Australia — was conceived as a strategic coalition to uphold a “free and open Indo-Pacific,” a concept...
The geopolitical environment that once helped manage nuclear risks has eroded.
In the nuclear age, restraint is not a sign of weakness but a strategic necessity.
The U.S. has carried out scores of covert and overt regime-change operations since the last century. Scholarly consensus is clear: such interventions...
This oversimplified narrative conceals the real drivers of upheaval while implicitly condoning violence.
There is a growing risk of the world fracturing into rival geopolitical and economic blocs, threatening both prosperity and peace.
For decades, the bedrock of U.S. grand strategy was to keep Moscow and Beijing apart.
Trump’s punitive steps against India are eroding the very trust on which strategic alignment rests — to Beijing’s delight.
Far from being the deft strategist he portrays, Trump has turned American diplomacy into an impulsive, self-serving spectacle.
Xi Jinping is waiting for the Dalai Lama to pass away so that Beijing can impose its own puppet as the next spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism.
The line between deterrence and provocation is perilously thin — and it may now have been crossed.
Could the “Trump Shock” actually lay the foundation for a new, more balanced international system?
Trump not only spared Pakistan the consequences of its actions but also damaged the foundation of U.S.-India strategic trust.
Instead of spurring political liberalization, China’s integration into the global economy spawned a more repressive state system.
Trump’s approach will seek to limit the influence and power of China without resorting to open hostility.
Bangladesh’s recent descent into lawlessness poses a foreign policy challenge for President Trump, especially because his predecessor supported last...
Trump is first and foremost a dealmaker who views diplomacy through the prism of potential transactions.
In recent years, India is tasting the bitter fruits of Modi’s initial efforts to appease China.