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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.

Recent statements by Indian Prime Minister Modi and Foreign Minister Jaishankar suggest that change could be in the air.

They stressed co-production and co-innovation, expansion of the export basket, finalizing an FTA with the Eurasian Economic Union, and revitalizing connectivity projects.

While not altering the global balance of power in any meaningful way, Putin’s visit might actually diminish India’s significance in the eyes of the West.

The two governments have accused the other of responsibility for a string of incidents that threaten to ignite another full-scale border conflict.

The carrier has mostly been used for HADR missions, and debates about its utility have raged since it entered into service in 1997.

Can an anti-immigration turn really be compatible with a ‘Japan is Back’ narrative?

Until 2021, statements about NATO in Chinese foreign and defense ministry press conferences were few and largely neutral in tone. Then the tone hardened.

Recent incidents point to the use of advanced operational techniques and technologies, signaling an increasing hybridization of terrorist techniques, tactics, and procedures.

China gives conflicting signals because it has three different “personas”: Moral China, Defensive-Assertive China, and Striving China.

Ishiba has critiqued current Prime Minister Takaichi for her Taiwan remarks, nuclear policy, and rice vouchers.

Far away from the scrutiny of the international community, the Arakan Army is holding hundreds of Bangladeshi citizens as hostages.

That “easy money” comes with a steep cost: a criminal record, a lifetime ban from Australia, and up to life imprisonment.

As families sift through ashes and survivors call for accountability following a catastrophic building fire in Hong Kong, authorities have moved swiftly to silence dissent.