Diplomacy & Crisis News

Taiwan’s Han Kuang exercises are winning public approval, despite the growing impact on civilians. Understanding is another matter.

When it comes to Chinese overseas port projects, negative economic externalities may coexist with positive ones. 

However determined Western governments may be to turn Russia and Iran into pariah states, much of the Global South rejects their isolation.

Its leaders successfully dismantled an old political order but had little knowledge of how to develop the institutions or governing consensus needed to replace it.

On a majority-Muslim island, federalists are sparring with Islamists.

The delusions of summitry and the limits of personalist diplomacy.

The leaders have fundamentally different ideas about the technology and how to regulate it.

NATO suspects that Russia is behind the latest airspace violation in Lithuania.

Koja Genta didn't win because of his stance on U.S. bases. He won because of his vision for the economy.

The president’s plan to tame soaring beef prices has alienated a key constituency.

In early September, Kyrgyzstan hosted both the World Nomad Games and the SCO summit in a carefully choreographed spectacle of national power and pride. 

AI competition may be an unwitting weakness for Beijing.

Slow growth and corruption have dogged the right and the left.

Without sustained dialogue over Taiwan, Beijing and Washington are both vulnerable to dangerous misreadings of each other’s intentions.

Beyond the question of energy security, Tokyo may want to avoid antagonizing Russia further by cutting off LNG purchases.

Pillar II’s progress has proven difficult to judge – not due to a lack of activity, but because there’s no agreed metric for what success should look like.

The incident could strain Japan’s persistent wide-area surveillance capabilities, as the JASDF operates only three of the high-altitude unmanned aircraft.

Trump returned to the presidency with renewed determination to mitigate Chinese influence worldwide, giving particular interest to the Western Hemisphere.

The Mexican government is deepening ties with Beijing in some of the sectors most sensitive to U.S. security concerns.

The IMF says Turkmenistan, in failing to provide key economic data, is in breach of its obligations.