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Myanmar’s “president” is embarking on his first official visit to an ASEAN country since his appointment in April.
The government needs to involve more academic institutions, think-tanks, and technical bodies in policymaking.
China's government is pushing hard for the resumption of the $3.6 billion project, which was suspended in 2011 amid widespread public opposition.
It’s not “whole of society” – and calling it that risks discrimination against ethnic Chinese.
The West Papua National Liberation Army has a history of targeting aircraft servicing remote parts of the Papuan highlands.
India has spent the last 16 years paying for its trade deal with ASEAN. The India-EU FTA would not repeat those mistakes.
The rupture between Afghanistan’s Taliban and their erstwhile allies in Pakistan continues to cause suffering on both sides of the border.
Czechia’s new government has changed its tone on Taiwan, but left most of the substance of the relationship intact.
They may have locked up a popular and powerful activist. But this will only convince more Baloch that there is no space for political protest or...
A look at the bilateral relationship, and its future direction.
Don't underestimate the China-Russia partnership; Beijing and Moscow have already cooperated in ways that seemed unthinkable not long ago.
Real reform in the water sector means building a system that makes corruption harder to commit, easier to detect, and less rewarding for those who...
Funding for drones became much more hotly discussed in the wake of KMT chair Cheng Li-wun’s trip to the United States last month.
India’s Act East Policy should be judged by its ability to change from articulating strategy to putting that strategy into practice in the...
The political momentum for the Northern Sea Route is real. However, the actual data looks a lot less rosy.
Real strategic stability starts with recognizing mutual vulnerability.
As the country celebrates its past, let it also recognize the place where its future security begins: an island that has given more to the United...
Italy is making an unexpectedly assertive return to Southeast Asia – not through trade or development aid, but through defense diplomacy.
In late May, the military announced that it had transferred the 81-year-old former leader from prison to house arrest.
AL, the perpetrator of the crime, was just 12 years of age at the time of her mother’s murder.
The Indonesian state has a long history of inserting itself into the economy in ways that have made investors uneasy.
Restarting the bilateral dialogue after a four-year freeze is a bid to loosen China’s grip on a critically-important mineral.
58 sailors from the U.S. aircraft carrier were punished over an LSD distribution case that began while it was homeported in Japan. Did their network...
China faces three specific barriers as it aims to produce key chipmaking equipment. Monitoring progress in these areas would help Western countries...
While the latest Japan-South Korea defense ministers’ meeting shows an obvious trajectory of rapprochement between the two neighbors, it also...
Before granting Uzbekistan Permanent Normal Trade Relations, Washington needs to use the leverage it has to push Tashkent toward accountability.
From the National Intelligence Law to two new State Council decrees, China’s official messaging on foreign investment doesn’t match the actual...
Unless the diplomatic momentum abroad translates into economic improvement at home, its impact will be limited.
Japan has earned rising acclaim from U.S. observers as a middle power that complements, rather than threatens, the United States. Yet Japan is not...
The outgoing premier is expected to seek the ruling Democratic Party’s chairship amid mounting friction between the presidential office and the DP.
Insights from Winston Ma.
The BrahMos has more potential buyers than ever, but India's defense export ecosystem is still a work in progress.
China’s attack on Taiwan has already started – with the Ethnic Unity Law as a weapon.
India and Japan keep talking about diversifying supply chains, but there's a gap between diplomatic rhetoric and industrial reality.
A football tournament is China’s latest propaganda campaign to whitewash its abuses of Uyghur people – and deconstruct Uyghur identity in favor of...
Beijing’s AI data center strategy will purposefully exclude foreign firms – providing a shot in the arm for domestic companies.
The case against former Orda editor-in-chief Gulnara Bazhkenova, who was placed under house arrest in December 2025, is set to begin following months...
The annual bung bang fai festival calls on the god Phaya Thaen to bring rain at the start of the agricultural season.
Will the rules-based order be a beacon in troubled waters?
While not every arrest will lead to a conviction, the old assumption that power could delay accountability indefinitely has begun to shake.
Goodbye INDOPACOM and hello (again) Middle Eastern distractions.
The Nakamal Agreement between Australia and Vanuatu may be weaker than Canberra’s other regional pacts, but it remains significant in checking...
Scientists warn of a regional disaster If pollution from rare earth and gold mining in Myanmar continues to spread toxins further along the Mekong...
The maritime exploration firm Ocean Infinity will have an additional year to locate the wreckage of the Boeing 777 airliner, which vanished without...
The Bangkok-based advocacy group Project88 documented 56 political arrests last year, the most in any year since 2018.
A decade on from one of the country's highest-profile political killings, democracy remains a dream rather than reality.
“Economic statecraft is not as simple or easy as Chinese decisionmakers think or as U.S. policymakers and external observers might fear,” argues...
Chinese workers have reportedly resumed construction on a critical highway along the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border where two such workers were killed...
Kazakhstan could plug Russia's current gasoline deficit, but it's a risk. Astana struggles already with self-sufficiency.
Chadchart Sittipunt, an independent, has replicated the landslide victory that delivered him to the governor's office in 2022.
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