Diplomacy & Crisis News

A grand bargain is out of reach, but a comprehensive deal is possible.

At a meeting with Xi next month, Trump will be on the back foot.

Washington, not Beijing, is the bigger threat.

The economic brunt of a prolonged war would be borne by the Indian and Pakistani people, who have no part in it but no escape from its consequences.

For decades, the Southeast Asian bloc has envisioned the creation of a region-spanning power grid. Is the project finally set for take-off?

During his quick visits to the two nations, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his hosts pledged to “strengthen energy supply chain resilience.”

The country is betting on nuclear power to secure its energy future – but it is doing so in one of the most water-stressed regions in the world.

Russia’s law suggests that Moscow is not preparing the Northern Sea Route for international use. It may instead be profiting from a misplaced expectation.

Climate disinformation is strategically deployed to reinforce red-tagging narratives, portraying Indigenous resistance to mining, energy, and infrastructure projects as a threat to national security.

Jean Crampilh-Broucaret (1939-1972), trois mois après l'inhumation de sa mère sous l'escalier de la ferme familiale, grave, à l'aide d'une perceuse et de ciseaux à bois, soixante-huit lignes, en lettres capitales, sur le parquet de sa chambre. Ce « plancher de Jeannot » épigraphe de treize (…) / France, Art, Littérature

The evolution of Sino-Japanese relations has rarely followed a linear path – but it has always remained within clear guardrails, even during times of tension.

After protesting Chinese state policies in Xinjiang, and after apparent pressure from Beijing, the group of Kazakhs were charged with “inciting national hatred.”

It ignores the elephant in the room: an unreliable and unruly United States.

En octobre 1943, des agents du Commissariat général aux questions juives (CGQJ) adressent à leur ancien chef Xavier Vallat une pétition concernant le « fonctionnement de la “Popote'' ». Ils déplorent la « médiocrité des repas servis », regrettent de « ne plus avoir de potage au repas de midi » (…) / France, Histoire, Seconde guerre mondiale 1939-1945, Nazisme

Beijing is not seeking a breakthrough on Taiwan at the Trump-Xi summit, but rather incremental gains that could gradually weaken Taiwan-U.S. ties.

People Power Party leader Jang Dong-hyeok’s Washington trip reveals more about his internal survival strategy than any genuine foreign policy agenda.

“Create Abundance” is not, in any conventional sense, a religion. For that reason, its persecution signals a dangerous expansion of China’s ideological control.

An open-access dataset from the Oxus Society maps more than $118 billion in resource exports across the five Central Asian republics, offering a rare quantitative window into the region’s shifting place in Eurasian supply chains.

In New Delhi, he will not want to be seen to be too close to “big brother” India so early in his tenure.

The Jamaat-e-Islami was complicit in the genocide of 3 million people in 1971. Why is that not reason enough for the BNP government to ban it?