Diplomacy & Crisis News

A Japanese trade group’s Beijing visit, led by an LDP MP, signals a possible thaw in China-Japan relations. 

Rather than ensuring the free flow of energy, U.S. intervention has only interrupted it.

The conflict did not derail the transition but exposed how vulnerable it remains to external disruption – and how quickly governments can fall back on fossil fuels.

A bank lending a business money is hardly cause for a headline. But this is no ordinary loan.

The suspension of Anthropic’s most advanced AI model has exposed how Silicon Valley lobbying shapes U.S. export policy at the expense of allied economies.

Carlos Frederico Pereira da Silva Gama and host Tushar Shetty discuss the priorities and divergences of India’s BRICS presidency ahead of the September leaders’ summit.

Is this the new normal?

Xi has ruthlessly gone after former Politburo Standing Committee member and one-time economic czar Wang Qishan.

Can the bloc maintain centrality amid managed trade?

Energy is Putin’s strongest card in a fuel-hungry region.

Why the consequences of Brexit can no longer be avoided.

But competing assertions have Gulf nations worried that the agreement won’t last.

Xi has spent billions of dollars trying to turn Beijing into a soccer powerhouse.

The Iran-U.S. conflict has served to concentrate attention on the transport relationship between Kazakhstan and Iran, in development for years before the war began.

The rapid consolidation of power by Field Marshal Asim Munir has the PTI reconsidering its options – and the controversial “charter of democracy.”

India’s attempt to balance ties with the U.S. has turned into a tilt, still deemed insufficient by Washington. For India, it is all stick and no carrots.

The regular tempo of on-the-ground cooperation suggests that the Quad – despite its thin institutional structure – may in fact be insulated from higher level political volatility.

Under Xi Jinping, the CCP has expanded its control over political language to the point where it challenges journalism’s most basic task: describing the world accurately.

An ugly chapter of World War II history is straining relations between Warsaw and Kyiv.

The Japan-U.K. compact shows Japanese companies still have an appetite for offshore wind, but local communities must not be left behind.