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Despite the swearing-in of a new "civilian" government, progress on the project is likely to remain sluggish.

Meeting in Beijing, To Lam and Xi Jinping declared that they view the bilateral relationship "as a strategic choice of overarching and long-term significance.”

The economic brunt of a prolonged war would be borne by the Indian and Pakistani people, who have no part in it but no escape from its consequences.

For decades, the Southeast Asian bloc has envisioned the creation of a region-spanning power grid. Is the project finally set for take-off?

During his quick visits to the two nations, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his hosts pledged to “strengthen energy supply chain resilience.”

The country is betting on nuclear power to secure its energy future – but it is doing so in one of the most water-stressed regions in the world.

Russia’s law suggests that Moscow is not preparing the Northern Sea Route for international use. It may instead be profiting from a misplaced expectation.

Climate disinformation is strategically deployed to reinforce red-tagging narratives, portraying Indigenous resistance to mining, energy, and infrastructure projects as a threat to national security.

The evolution of Sino-Japanese relations has rarely followed a linear path – but it has always remained within clear guardrails, even during times of tension.

After protesting Chinese state policies in Xinjiang, and after apparent pressure from Beijing, the group of Kazakhs were charged with “inciting national hatred.”

It ignores the elephant in the room: an unreliable and unruly United States.

Beijing is not seeking a breakthrough on Taiwan at the Trump-Xi summit, but rather incremental gains that could gradually weaken Taiwan-U.S. ties.

People Power Party leader Jang Dong-hyeok’s Washington trip reveals more about his internal survival strategy than any genuine foreign policy agenda.

“Create Abundance” is not, in any conventional sense, a religion. For that reason, its persecution signals a dangerous expansion of China’s ideological control.

An open-access dataset from the Oxus Society maps more than $118 billion in resource exports across the five Central Asian republics, offering a rare quantitative window into the region’s shifting place in Eurasian supply chains.

In New Delhi, he will not want to be seen to be too close to “big brother” India so early in his tenure.

The Jamaat-e-Islami was complicit in the genocide of 3 million people in 1971. Why is that not reason enough for the BNP government to ban it?

The country will need to prepare for the consequences of sustained low fertility rates.

Anthropic’s Mythos Preview exposes a widening gap between accelerating AI-enabled threats and Southeast Asia’s capacity to respond — and the window to act is closing.

Beijing is working subtly to shape the regional environment ahead of the meeting – and take advantage of Washington’s focus on the Iran war.