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The Indonesian political system has enabled deforestation through weak oversight, opaque licensing, and regulations designed to favor extractive industries.

The program has come under scrutiny for its implementation and high cost, which is set to total nearly $15 billion in 2026.

Beijing is becoming more selective about where and what it builds overseas. That transition was already underway but it has been hastened by the Iran-U.S. war.

The assumption that economic leverage leads to political influence has underpinned China analysis for decades. Developments in Latin America are calling that into question.

Like the CPTPP after the U.S. exit from TPP, the next phase of regional security may be shaped by what U.S. allies and partners build when Washington moves one step back.

The RSF’s score for India is significant not for the number itself, but for what that ranking reflects about deeper structural trends affecting journalism, media ownership, and democratic accountability.

Takaichi’s overwhelming victory during the February election suggests China’s coercive approach might be counterproductive. But Beijing’s tactics are not aimed only at the bilateral relationship.

Clean technology has become embedded within a wider geopolitical contest over industrial leadership, technological sovereignty, and influence in the world, especially in the Global South. 

The attack, which coincided with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s visit to China, was aimed at sending China a message that its investments in Balochistan are not safe.

Moscow's deepening relations with the Taliban hint at growing doubts about Pakistan as a counterterrorism partner.

Scott Johnson talks about drones and meeting Nerdah Bo Mya in Kawthoolei.

Data centers are critical enablers of ASEAN’s digital economy, but rapid digitalization presents a number of serious sustainability challenges.

Hanoi's closer engagement with its ASEAN neighbors represents an enhancement of its flexible, omnidirectional foreign policy doctrine.

Bangkok's recent withdrawal from a 2001 MoU governing maritime border talks has prompted Phnom Penh to internationalize the dispute.

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer has recommended the imposition 10-12.5 percent levies on 60 major trading partners.

Thirty-seven years later, the regime’s legitimacy still rests on suppressing the truth of what happened on June 4, 1989.

Eco-brutalism is an aesthetic appeal to a healthier, greener future, and one that can be built atop existing realities. 

From irregular border crossings to bilateral training agreements, Uzbekistan is working to carve out a formal pathway to U.S. employment. 

Washington wants allies to spend more on defense, while Beijing judges Australia by what it does, not what it says. Canberra needs to take stock of its own interests.

The 1989 crackdown reinforced a political order that made independent worker organizing nearly impossible. The effects have been felt across the global economy.