Diplomacy & Crisis News

The deteriorating security environment in the region thus reinforces the importance of China-Pakistan military cooperation.

A diplomatic spat and a comment that caused controversy.

Japanese exporters enjoy high demand and strong profit margins, but importers are under severe pressure. The weak yen also hurts Japanese consumers.

Tencent’s new payment app shows how China’s tech companies can lower barriers for foreign users without fundamentally changing the systems behind them.

“If we are serious about the CCP as our foremost long-term strategic challenge, we should end the Iran war and rebuild depleted stockpiles, immediately.”

China’s climate cooperation with Africa is becoming more investment-led, with a focus on industrialization.

Tatiana Mitrova, a fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy and former energy scholar at Moscow’s Russian Academy of Sciences, and Sergey Vakulenko, an oil and gas expert at Carnegie’s Russia Eurasia Center, argue that Russia and Ukraine are locked in an energy war that has become an adaptation spiral, despite growing human and economic costs and despite current US pressure on Ukraine. They observe Ukraine’s remarkable ability to withstand Russian strikes, while questioning claims that long-range Ukrainian strikes will be able to achieve game-changing damage on Russia. Ukraine and Russia have transformed the role of energy warfare in modern conflict, drawing on low costs drones but also new forms of technological resilience that are likely to make wars longer and more dangerous.

The U.S. secretary of state’s itinerary skipped the corridors of power in Delhi for boardrooms and a refinery. 

He visited Jamnagar, home to the world’s largest oil refinery, which is run by Reliance Industries. The latter plans to build a refinery in Texas.

The BJP government in the state stripped the festival of its secular-cultural uniqueness to impose religious and ritualistic practices that are anathema to Bengalis.

The constraints and costs of the new security consensus.

Jakarta has serious questions to answer about the credibility of its capital markets and the effectiveness of the institutions responsible for regulating them.

Anwar Ibrahim said that Waze, which was developed in Tel Aviv before being acquired by Google in 2013, could be "exploited by the Israeli regime."

Kim Aris called for the release of all political prisoners in Myanmar and said that his mother "must never be held hostage or used as a bargaining chip."

A joint communique ups the diplomatic rhetoric but offers no solutions.

Typically, South Korea has used loudspeakers to respond to North Korean provocations. Now Pyongyang has vowed to turn them on – and the prospects for de-escalation are dim.

China is building a dense network of relationships across all pillars of influence while the United States continues to weaken the institutions it traditionally used to compete.

Any Sino-American conflict would place enormous pressure on fuel supplies. U.S. fuel dependence turns Manila’s energy fragility into a strategic vulnerability.

Clear ground rules could not only help resolve the North Korean POW standoff but prevent the next case.

From Hong Kong to Bangkok, Paris, Taiwan, and North America, LGBTQ communities are encountering censorship, surveillance, and coercive pressure linked to China.