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The upcoming meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Xi will be followed by a Putin-Xi summit. Will there be scope for triangular diplomacy?

Unlike in 2024, China sees an opportunity to influence Australia. That has led Beijing to refrain from criticism.

Tokyo’s defense exports are becoming tools for building a new middle power security network across the Indo-Pacific.

Sponsored student visits are keeping international contact alive, but schools and analysts should ask questions about the intentions behind the visits as well as the impressions they create.

Insights from Xiaobing Li.

Military organizations must contend with operational realities, not political declarations. That's exactly why OPCON transfer is necessary.

Hainan is today engaged in what may be China’s most radical economic experiment since the 1980s – and Taiwan is part of the rationale.

According to his lawyer, Tashiev has been indicted on charges of plotting a coup and the case has been classified. 

Will the current oil supply shock hold back the region’s green transition, or accelerate it?

Amid the expected pomp and circumstance, what can we expect from the Trump-Xi summit?

Dr. Anil Kakodkar, former chair of India's Atomic Energy Commission, joins the podcast to discuss the history and future of India’s three-stage nuclear program.

The austerity measures are aimed at dealing with oil and gas shortages and conserving foreign exchange.

In what can only be described as collective punishment, the young son of detained artist Gao Zhen is being prevented from returning home to the United States

Following the 2025 regional drought, Kazakhstan authorities have warned about below-average reservoir levels and the possibility for summer shortages.

The meeting will be a stark display of Trump and Xi’s shared anti-human rights vision of transactional geopolitics. Accountability will have to come from elsewhere.

KP police are the most targeted by terrorists. They are also the worst paid.

Oil disruptions are cascading into fertilizer markets, weakening agriculture and putting South Asia’s food security at risk. We've seen this pattern before.

Beijing rewrote two slogans before it sealed the country – once to rewrite history, once to prewrite the future.

New Delhi has hedged more toward China without articulating any conditions. Beijing is taking full advantage.

How to make sense of a number of apparently contradictory outlooks on the country's economic and fiscal health.