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Human rights organizations are speaking out after five Kazakh activists were convicted for an alleged plan to seize the presidential residence in Astana.

Hinduism may not be as well-defined and creedal as Christianity or Islam, but it is not a meaningless label either. It refers to a real idea.

Xi and Putin in Delhi made the headlines. The declaration tells the real story of India's multi-alignment and why Europe should welcome it.

Siddhant Kishore joins host Tushar Shetty to examine the BRICS summit in New Delhi and the strategic realignment underway across Asia.

Insights from Verineia Codrean.

Beijing has opened its enormous market to African exports. Whether that helps the continent move up global value chains is another question.

In the first Central Asia-South Korea leaders summit, energy and critical minerals were top of the agenda. 

Southeast Asia might end up hosting substantial computing capacity without developing a correspondingly deep AI economy.

Taiwan’s Han Kuang exercises are winning public approval, despite the growing impact on civilians. Understanding is another matter.

When it comes to Chinese overseas port projects, negative economic externalities may coexist with positive ones. 

However determined Western governments may be to turn Russia and Iran into pariah states, much of the Global South rejects their isolation.

Its leaders successfully dismantled an old political order but had little knowledge of how to develop the institutions or governing consensus needed to replace it.

Koja Genta didn't win because of his stance on U.S. bases. He won because of his vision for the economy.

In early September, Kyrgyzstan hosted both the World Nomad Games and the SCO summit in a carefully choreographed spectacle of national power and pride. 

Without sustained dialogue over Taiwan, Beijing and Washington are both vulnerable to dangerous misreadings of each other’s intentions.

Beyond the question of energy security, Tokyo may want to avoid antagonizing Russia further by cutting off LNG purchases.

Pillar II’s progress has proven difficult to judge – not due to a lack of activity, but because there’s no agreed metric for what success should look like.

The incident could strain Japan’s persistent wide-area surveillance capabilities, as the JASDF operates only three of the high-altitude unmanned aircraft.

Trump returned to the presidency with renewed determination to mitigate Chinese influence worldwide, giving particular interest to the Western Hemisphere.

The Mexican government is deepening ties with Beijing in some of the sectors most sensitive to U.S. security concerns.