TheDiplomat

Eco-brutalism is an aesthetic appeal to a healthier, greener future, and one that can be built atop existing realities. 

From irregular border crossings to bilateral training agreements, Uzbekistan is working to carve out a formal pathway to U.S. employment. 

Advanced AI models are no longer treated simply as commercial products; they are increasingly regarded as strategic assets linked to national power.

Insights from Pekka Virkki.

While still growing, Kyrgyzstan’s GDP may slow due to increasing weight of sanctions.

What Abe's post-2014 rapprochement with Beijing can teach Tokyo today.

Exit polls suggest the DP will win 11 of 16 regional posts, with Seoul and Busan producing the night’s most closely watched results.

Bangladesh’s security lies not in becoming part of someone else’s strategic rivalry, but in becoming economically strong, diplomatically flexible, and internally legitimate.

Deeper economic integration with Chinese AI advances brings real opportunity – and heightened risks of influence campaigns.

The Hong Kong-based IOMed is testing a new path for international dispute settlement, but the road ahead is challenging.

A January 2026 report suggests Beijing is now targeting the digital communities that were Mongolian speakers’ last refuge – in a region that never posed a separatist threat.

The arc of geopolitics will bend back toward competition.

Moscow is reportedly furnishing as much as 85 percent of the financing for the project. 

Balendra Shah, who assumed office just two months ago, does as he pleases, with little regard for constitutional norms, parliamentary procedures or diplomatic niceties.

The security provisions in recent agreements with the Taliban may reflect intent, but the more immediate benefit on the Russian side appears to be addressing the labor shortage. 

Neither the Japan-U.S. alliance nor the Sino-Japanese economic relationship will completely unravel overnight. However, the overall trendlines have led Tokyo to seek further hedges.

Buddhist fundamentalism functions in post-coup Myanmar not as a parallel force to military authoritarianism, but as an integral component of it.

Imported inflation, fragile manufacturing, and unequal burdens complicate textbook arguments supporting unrestricted currency depreciation across India.

True integration, it appears, will remain elusive until New Delhi stops treating Kashmir as a security variable to be managed.

“Taiwan Travelogue” and its Booker Prize win highlight the nuances – and controversies – of contemporary culture in Taiwan.