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China’s foreign policy bureaucracy faces a mounting succession crisis that will only multiply in 2026.

Too often opportunities concentrate within capital cities or designated special economic zones, and thereby render the rest of the country peripheral. 

Strong economic performance sent government revenue soaring in 2025, putting the country in an enviable fiscal position.

Unlike Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram are not opposed to the Protected Area Permit given their concerns over the influx of refugees and rebels from Myanmar.

Three major areas of strategic concern were discussed in Delhi: defense purchases, nuclear power generation and space technology.

With the search for MH370 set to resume on December 30, China has approved its first compensation claim involving the doomed aircraft.

More than four years after its establishment, the country's opposition government has come under increasing pressure to reform.

Meera Gopal joins host Tushar Shetty to examine the outcomes of COP30 in Belém, Brazil and the implications for South Asia.

Half as long as his previous administration’s NSS, Trump’s newly revealed strategy is perhaps the clearest (though still confusing) outline of the U.S. president’s worldview.

A high-ranking Thai military official has announced that the army plans to "render Cambodia militarily ineffective for a long time."

The potential is growing for China-Japan tensions to escalate into an actual armed clash. 

“Xi Jinping himself – ideologically and politically – was committed to a form of totalitarian rule. And he was skillful enough, ruthless enough to bring it about.”

The plan codifies demands for Japan to spend more on defense and increase its capabilities – efforts Japanese officials say are already underway.

The relevant criterion for evaluating foreign technology partnerships should be ownership and control of domestic assets, not the national origin of licensed expertise.

The partnership has become a two-way relationship, with missile technology originally transferred to Russia being upgraded and sent back to North Korea.

Public debate on the ban has focused on parenting choices. But the real issue is corporate compliance, technical design, and safe spaces for young people.

While the United States is refusing to lend Japan a helping hand, the intensity of the China-Japan confrontation is moving in a deeply worrying direction.

Ulaanbaatar’s Cuba diplomacy encapsulates the country’s past as well as its many changes in going from a socialist system to a multi-party democracy today.

After reports of suicides and deaths due to overwork, the Diplomat tracked several Booth Level Officers carrying out the Special Intensive Revision to understand the ground reality.