Diplomacy & Crisis News

Its in-house gaffes and disputes are largely to blame for the DP's plummeting approval ratings.

A formal trilateral could raise strategic questions that are awkward for the EU, Ukraine – and China itself.

Dimanche 25 octobre, les Brésiliens départageront MM. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva et Flávio Bolsonaro. Arrivé en tête du premier tour de l'élection présidentielle le 4 octobre, le troisième fils de l'ancien président d'extrême droite voit son avance se réduire. A la veille du scrutin, les deux (…) / Parti politique, Brésil, Élections

Taiwan’s formal relationships in Africa and Latin America point to the real factors driving recognition decisions – and it’s not “dollar diplomacy.”

A COC that lacks credible enforcement mechanisms would do little to address security challenges.

Journalists covering the country’s parliament are pushing back against new rules that constrict their ability to question officials.

Repeated military cooperation can help build predictability, trust, interoperability, and institutionalized relationships among participants. 

The deteriorating security environment in the region thus reinforces the importance of China-Pakistan military cooperation.

A diplomatic spat and a comment that caused controversy.

Japanese exporters enjoy high demand and strong profit margins, but importers are under severe pressure. The weak yen also hurts Japanese consumers.

Tencent’s new payment app shows how China’s tech companies can lower barriers for foreign users without fundamentally changing the systems behind them.

“If we are serious about the CCP as our foremost long-term strategic challenge, we should end the Iran war and rebuild depleted stockpiles, immediately.”

China’s climate cooperation with Africa is becoming more investment-led, with a focus on industrialization.

Tatiana Mitrova, a fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy and former energy scholar at Moscow’s Russian Academy of Sciences, and Sergey Vakulenko, an oil and gas expert at Carnegie’s Russia Eurasia Center, argue that Russia and Ukraine are locked in an energy war that has become an adaptation spiral, despite growing human and economic costs and despite current US pressure on Ukraine. They observe Ukraine’s remarkable ability to withstand Russian strikes, while questioning claims that long-range Ukrainian strikes will be able to achieve game-changing damage on Russia. Ukraine and Russia have transformed the role of energy warfare in modern conflict, drawing on low costs drones but also new forms of technological resilience that are likely to make wars longer and more dangerous.

The U.S. secretary of state’s itinerary skipped the corridors of power in Delhi for boardrooms and a refinery. 

He visited Jamnagar, home to the world’s largest oil refinery, which is run by Reliance Industries. The latter plans to build a refinery in Texas.

The BJP government in the state stripped the festival of its secular-cultural uniqueness to impose religious and ritualistic practices that are anathema to Bengalis.

The constraints and costs of the new security consensus.

Jakarta has serious questions to answer about the credibility of its capital markets and the effectiveness of the institutions responsible for regulating them.

Anwar Ibrahim said that Waze, which was developed in Tel Aviv before being acquired by Google in 2013, could be "exploited by the Israeli regime."