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If legitimacy is tied to history, then exactly how that history is interpreted matters beyond conference rooms packed with historians. 

The scam economy is an industrialized system that merges cyber fraud with human trafficking and money laundering, all thriving under political protection.

A patriotic film backfired because a growing number of Han Chinese don’t see the Manchu-origin Qing dynasty as a part of their history.

Insights from James R. Holmes.

Under Pyongyang’s new “two states” policy, sports diplomacy has been repackaged as inter-state, not inter-Korean, exchanges. 

OPCON transfer is not an agreement on how to separate. It's a renewed commitment that makes necessary updates to a 70-year-old framework.

With democracies having little appetite to take on any economic risk, China’s support for Russia continues, and so too does the war.

The détente may well have bought the world some time that can be usefully spent strategically. How can African countries respond?

A new levy on digital transfers suspected of hiding unregistered business extends the cash-strapped government’s long habit of taxing whatever it can reach.

Nepal’s hydropower vision depends on India, both as a primary buyer and an exclusive transit route. That gives India immense power over Nepal’s ambitions.

Japan confirmed the first known deployment of a Jiangkai III-class frigate as part of a PLAN carrier strike group, highlighting China’s accelerating blue-water naval integration.

Modi’s Nordic tour could also be interpreted as the opening move in a deliberate strategy to build India’s Arctic credentials. But there’s a big obstacle: Russia.

“I don’t find evidence that [Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan] are yet grappling with the water needs of next-generation industries.”

North Korea intends to press ahead with its own military modernization timeline regardless of the diplomatic calendar.

If Europe wants to reduce security vulnerabilities in its economic relationship with China, it must embed those policies within a strategically positive narrative.

China wants the world to hear only one version of Taiwan’s story: Beijing’s. And much of the world is listening to this version.

New campaign finance laws put the Community Independents Project at a crossroads.

Khurram Husain joins host Tushar Shetty to examine whether Pakistan’s recent diplomatic gains are translating into meaningful economic progress.

RightsCon 2026 was supposed to be held in Zambia in May – but then Beijing pressured the host government. 

Putin left Beijing last week without a Power of Siberia 2 deal. The reason is partly in Turkmenistan.