Diplomacy & Crisis News

Unlike most of its ASEAN counterparts, Malaysia can look forward to strong growth, increased state revenue, and shrinking deficits in 2027.

Dili will seek to "ensure that ASEAN’s principles work together in support of peace and the well-being of its peoples," says the country's vice minister for ASEAN affairs.

Over the past few years, the country’s military has received hundreds of thousands of barrels of aviation fuel from Iran’s large tanker “shadow fleet.”

What Serbian youth understood about politics that their counterparts elsewhere in the West haven’t.

A student-led grassroots movement in Serbia will replace one of Europe’s staunchest populists.

From AUKUS to trade, the implications of the upcoming U.S. midterm elections for Australia are likely to be profound.

If so, to what end? Panda and Putz discuss on the latest episode of the Asia Geopolitics podcast.

Regardless of the Sino-Vatican agreement, the practical, multifaceted ties between Taiwan and the Holy See have deepened over the past year.

Tashkent summoned the Iranian ambassador to lodge a protest regarding social media posts by Iranian diplomatic missions.

In the wake of the Pukpuk Treaty, Australia and PNG continued to deepen relations with a new rotation planned, defense infrastructure investment, and expanded ADF recruitment.

However justified or inevitable it might be, this represents a major shift in how the U.S. has thought about intellectual property for the last three decades. 

Since June, civil society groups and local media warned of PLA encroachments into Arunachal Pradesh. Hitherto, Delhi’s response was to deny and dismiss their claims.

The largest Hindu religious festival went off smoothly – a credit to the new BNP government.

In two outbreaks of war last year, the RTAF underlined its status as one of the region’s most effective and professional air forces.

The country's legal system may provide one of the few remaining means of bringing Myanmar's generals to justice.

Energy Minister Bahlil Lahadalia said last week that Jakarta would prioritize its own needs, and might cut off supplies to nations that did not respect Indonesia.

Handing over prime land in a land-scarce country, on an island pitched as a lasting solution to an acute housing crisis, warrants deeper scrutiny.

Last week, Pakistan signed the Badr Pact with Türkiye, Qatar, and Indonesia, the latest in a string of defense-related agreements with key partners.

In recent years Indonesian waters have become an important route for the trafficking of Golden Triangle drugs to Asian and global markets.

China's economy has a huge problem: Chinese people aren’t spending enough money. And this is not just a problem for China.