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Insights from Jieun Baek.

Vietnam is deeply committed, for strategic and historic reasons, to respond to uncertainty and global geopolitical tensions by hedging. And it's working.

North Korea, already receiving Russian drone technology, could eventually gain access to more advanced capabilities like autonomous AI‑enabled and jet‑powered drones.

In addition to sanctioning 27 Iranian airlines, the U.S. designated Turkish, Kazakh, and Malaysian companies for serving as general sales agents for long-sanctioned Iranian airline Mahan Air.

Focusing strictly on China’s anxieties misses a far more urgent reality: South Korea faces an existential threat from North Korea.

The war in Ukraine has produced a much longer-term transformation of the institutional and political environment in which migration takes place.

South Korea and France agreed to advance defense cooperation and coordinate on Hormuz Strait security following a summit in Paris.

Indian laws never specified any single document as proof of citizenship, but the Modi government’s citizenship screening drive has turned it into a big question.

Japan and South Korea share more than enough to work together on North Korea — but less than is often assumed.

The real question is not simply how many provinces Pakistan needs, but whether its political system can make smaller units more accountable, representative and effective.

The 46th World Chess Olympiad is being held in Samarkand.

The destruction of the Trishuli-Bhotekoshi corridor is a local tragedy with national economic consequences.

One clue as to how the U.S. plans to proceed might be glimpsed in how Uzbekistan progresses in following Kazakhstan into dual membership.

The migrants who build, clean, drive, guard, and operate the Gulf’s economies have become the forgotten civilian casualties in its wars.

As SCO chair, Pakistan can be expected to highlight new connectivity routes via Iran and Central Asia that link the Belt and Road Initiative to the Arabian Sea.

Xi’s visit from September 1-2 was significant for both sides, though for different reasons.

The SCO may serve legitimate Central Asian interests, but it should not become the vehicle through which Beijing’s definitions of security, political loyalty, and ethnic identity become normalized across the Turkic world. 

South Korea has an industrial head start, but is Japan’s upgraded Mogami class merely a stalking horse for the Chungnam class?

Most people assume that China’s cyber capabilities define the totality of its threat to Taiwan, but this simply does not capture the full picture.

The eruption of Anak Krakatau, which is located on a small island in the Sunda Strait, forced the closure of eight airports, including two serving the capital Jakarta.