Diplomacy & Crisis News

Differences between Prime Minister Balendra Shah and RSP chief Rabi Lamichhane, two politicians with competing centers of authority, were inevitable.

While the government focuses on burnishing its appeal to well-heeled tourists, massive holdings of Thai elite wealth remain effectively untaxed.

The scholars described the Batanes Islands as a “natural geographical extension” of Taiwan, which therefore belonged to China.

Are India’s fraying relations with the US transient, or do they represent a fundamental rupture with long-term impacts on US-India relations and India’s growth story?

Baghdad goes its own way.

America and its allies must pool their efforts.

While AI use is proliferating, it is unclear whether it is moving into the areas of the economy where most of the region’s 2 billion workers are actually employed.

Tin Maung Swe is likely to press the case for diplomatic normalization between ASEAN and the military-backed government in Naypyidaw.

Regional geopolitical tensions and a legal stalemate are constraining both countries' cobalt ambitions in the Afanasy Nikitin Seamount.

Quand Pieter Bruegel l'Ancien peint la chute d'Icare, il traite une histoire connue, mais il la représente de façon imprévue : Icare tombe discrètement dans un coin de la toile, parfaitement ignoré par les paysans qui travaillent le champ d'à côté. Toute son œuvre distord la représentation (…) / Idées, Peinture, Art, Personnalités

The Indo-Pacific is dead; long live the Indo-Pacific.

A CASC poster connected the recent SLBM launch to the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War. 

Jamais depuis une décennie il n'y avait eu autant de défaillances d'entreprises. En 2025, la France en a connu 70 000. Et la Cour des comptes préconise de rogner les droits des salariés qui subissent les liquidations plutôt que de mettre à contribution les employeurs. / Entreprise, France, (…) / Entreprise, France, Travail, Protection sociale

Australia can help itself and its region by burnishing its credentials as a trusted international mediator. 

Conflicting domestic economic policies, sudden judicial disruptions, and fresh American tariff investigations have upended the India-U.S. trade deal.

New Delhi wants more capitals it can call on, not fewer.

Devotees’ donations have allegedly been siphoned away under the watch of Sangh Parivar leaders. With elections in Uttar Pradesh due next year, the BJP has swung into damage control mode.

An Indian organized crime syndicate led by Lawrence Bishnoi is being treated as a transnational security threat requiring coordinated international action.

The short-term results and the long-term risks of the “Donroe Doctrine.”

Ending the peacekeeper’s paralysis.