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Structural separation inadvertently reduces alliance accountability at precisely the moment when regional great power rivalry is intensifying. 

Sri Lanka is no longer simply attracting Indian tourists. It is increasingly being shaped around them.

China’s linguistic assimilation campaign continues to advance.

This is the closest Islamabad has come so far to yielding to Beijing’s demands for Chinese security forces to be stationed in Pakistan.

Currently, GE, Safran, and Rolls-Royce are all in contention for engine development for India’s fifth-generation Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft and Twin-Engine Deck-Based Fighter.

Pyongyang is pruning its diplomatic network to concentrate on the partners where sanctions enforcement is weakest and digital evasion infrastructure is already in place.

With the Parseria Foun ba Era Foun declaration, Australia and Timor-Leste hope to build a partnership grounded in equality, shared regional interests, and respectful cooperation between neighbors.

Political friction and logistical barriers limit India’s integration into the evolving connectivity landscape, even as the broader promise of Eurasian integration remains contingent on its inclusion.

To understand what may emerge from the Ninth Party Congress, it is worth examining what these meetings are and how their functions have evolved.

The world has shifted focus away from Afghanistan, much as it did in the lead-up to September 2001, giving dangerous networks room to rebuild.

The NCP was born of revolution, then aligned with Jamaat-e-Islami. Will that partnership outlast the election?

The former president challenged judicial neutrality, and conservative leaders continue to back him, with an eye toward appeasing the increasingly hardline base.

Are the new ties that bind Central Asian countries strong enough to weather drought? 

The war helped secure an election victory for Anutin and Thai conservatives. And that was almost certainly by design.

Five decades after his prescient wartime exposé of the Khmer Rouge, Ith Sarin resurfaces to shed new light on his life ahead of the publication of a new translation.

While Beijing publicly advocates restraint, sustained tensions between the U.S. and Iran serve its strategic interests.

While restraint remains the order of the day, recent developments suggest that rival nations' maritime "red lines" are hardening.

Pakistan’s goal should not be to replace India in Bangladesh, but to foster a relationship based on sovereign equality.

Jakarta will cut trade barriers on more than 99 percent of American imports, in exchange for tariff exemptions for certain key goods.

A host of new initiatives are helping to inoculate Southeast Asia's largest nation against China’s fintech dominance.