Diplomacy & Crisis News

An ambitious policy framework has translated into limited change in Kazakhstan. Why?     

A few sunlit ridges beside ice-rich craters could become lunar chokepoints, unless Asia writes simple, shared rules now.

India’s navy is the only one that operates persistently between Qatar, the forward HQ of the US CENTCOM, and the Malacca Strait, which leads into the South China Sea.

While ACD removes structural barriers to cooperation, at the same time it is supposed to gradually reduce Japan’s overreliance on U.S. cyberdefense systems. 

Even though China’s role in South Asia has grown in the last decade, Beijing has little by way of policy or strategy when it comes to dealing with political instability in the region. 

This is Pakistan’s most significant formal defense pact in decades, and the first such agreement that an Arab Gulf state has inked with a nuclear-armed partner.

Leaked documents from Geedge Networks and GoLaxy show how repression in China is both a political imperative and a profitable business.

That Indonesia’s costly high-speed rail is operating at a loss right out of the gate has raised some eyebrows.

Kim Jong Un showed his tit-for-tat move against the latest South Korea-U.S. military drills.

Beijing’s core aims are clear—and limited.

How the EU can funnel its wealth into its defense.

China’s limited success in managing the political risks of the BRI has resulted in reputational costs and played a role in China’s curtailed flow of BRI lending in recent years.

Far from consolidating, recognition by the international community could expose the group’s rifts over resources, external demands, and identity.

It is nearly impossible for even the closest U.S. allies to comply with its byzantine immigration system. That needs to change.

Treasury’s latest sanctions show momentum, but contradictions in U.S. policy risk blunting their impact.

Geopolitics in East Asia is pushing Ulaanbaatar and Tokyo to rely more on each other.

Tribunal de Bobigny, 8 novembre 1972. L'avocate Gisèle Halimi appelle Paul Milliez, professeur de médecine, catholique pratiquant et opposant à la légalisation de l'avortement, à témoigner en faveur de Michèle Chevalier, accusée d'avoir aidé sa fille à se faire avorter. Dans les semaines qui suivent (...) / France, Enfance, Femmes, Histoire, Santé, Société, Médecine, Droits des femmes - 2022/11

Recent trends cast doubt on the long-standing assumption that young people in Japan are politically irrelevant.

Unlike when the U.S. held unipolar power, times have changed as China and the BRICS countries begin fashioning a non-militarized, multipolar world. 

China is willing to stand with non-Western partners firmly, but remains determined to avoid Cold War-style alliances.