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To move beyond the role of a buffer zone and emerge as an independent strategic actor, the countries of Central Asia must learn to view one another not as competitors, but as partners.

While protests against Canadian mines, or Russian businesses, occur in Central Asia, “Chinese projects overwhelmingly receive the vast majority of hostility.”

The election next week is an opportunity to address fundamental human rights deficits that preceded Yoon’s tenure – yet such commitments remain notably absent from major candidates' platforms. 

How are Caribbean leaders responding to Trump 2.0 and Xi’s China?

Since 2022, the number of individuals barred from entering either Russia or Kazakhstan has grown significantly.

No country repeated India’s claims or condemned Pakistan by name after the Pahalgam attack or during Operation Sindoor. Not one of India’s many “strategic partners” was on India’s side.

The Vietnamese conglomerate has a history of throwing itself into ambitious projects for which it has little or no previous experience.

Jakarta's anti-drug agency linked the 2-ton meth seizure to a syndicate in the Golden Triangle, which has seen a spike in narcotics production over the past decade.

189 people lost their lives when Lion Air flight 610 crashed into the Java Sea, 13 minutes after taking off from Jakarta's Soekarno–Hatta International Airport.

Opening yesterday's 46th ASEAN Summit, the Malaysian leader also hailed the “significant” progress in efforts to end the civil war in Myanmar.

And what it reveals of current China-Japan relations.

Various political factions are attempting to seize the advantage amid organic protests seeking the prime minister's ouster.

However, a Taliban-only arrangement will merely replicate the exclusionary cycles that have doomed past peace efforts

Differences between political parties on issues like elections seem to be hampering the functioning of the interim government.

Transitional justice, the last leg of the peace process, will remain incomplete unless the victims have adequate say in the process.

The young nation has yet to fulfill a considerable number of legal requirements, suggesting that a later timeline might be more realistic.

Along with the conflict in Myanmar, the issue of trade is likely to be high on the agenda at the 46th ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur.

Following an underwhelming electoral return, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is likely to lean all the more heavily on his relationship with Washington.

Malaysia needs to lead a regional push for international criminal accountability and reject the military's planned sham “elections.”

Washington itself hasn’t solved the problems that fed into Taiwan’s nuclear phase-out: waste storage and high costs.