Diplomacy & Crisis News

Franklin Templeton seeks to replicate its success in Romania with a $1.7 billion IPO of Uzbek state assets. Is Tashkent finally ready for change?

Understanding Beijing’s strategic rejection of a “Yalta 2.0” arrangement.

Kremlin rhetoric aims to shape narratives at home and abroad.

As global trade fractures, it’s time to retire one of development’s most persistent—and misleading—slogans.

But the administration has other ways to build protectionist walls that are less vulnerable to legal challenges.

Approving the North West Shelf extension is a disaster for the environment, Australia’s climate commitments, and the fragile and irreplaceable rock art in Murujuga.

Shutting down development agencies such as the MCC will force Mongolia to rely more on Russia and China for funding.

Its extensive road and railway network, coupled with major ports in the Indian Ocean, gives Iran an important advantage in cooperation with the landlocked Central Asian republics. 

The head of the Kyrgyz presidential press service aired an unfounded allegation on Facebook that the detained journalists were being paid by Bolot Temirov.

New research finds that Americans who primarily get news from online and social media platforms have lower levels of hostility toward China.

You don’t need to be an idealist to be worried about Donald Trump’s approach to global order.

In the bullies’ playbook, silencing opponents is key. Here’s why it always backfires.

India’s multilateralism and nonalignment have their limits. Just as it is unwilling to throw in its lot with another country or alliance, no other country has an incentive to go all in with India.

Relations have hit a new low with Dhaka abruptly canceling a $21 million contract for an advanced ocean-going tug.

Despite reported frictions over CPEC and security issues in Pakistan, China had no qualms about offering – and even expanding – support for Islamabad.

Pictures of Modi in an Indian Air Force fighter pilot uniform are all over the country, as the BJP works overtime to project him as the dynamic leader who delivered "victory."

Amid a renewed debate on protectionism, the world’s most populous country remains a tariff outlier.

What seems like chaos is in fact a unified plan to reshape the United States.

Despite recent reports of a softening of Indonesian policy, establishing ties with Tel Aviv would come with high domestic political risks.

Recent months have seen an awakening of long-dormant maritime and territorial disputes between the two nations.