TheDiplomat

Beneath the pageantry, here's the change that matters: Washington has stopped talking about leaving China.

The deal is one of the earliest defense deals between India and the U.S. It is also the one that dragged on the longest.

There are significant opportunities – and risks.

The debate over the death penalty is back in Uzbekistan, this time involving the country’s most senior officials.

The fact that Trump didn’t give anything new away on Taiwan shouldn’t obscure how much ground he has already conceded to Xi.

The UNGA voted to delete those sections 20 years ago. But the issue has acquired renewed political significance as Sino-Japanese relations have deteriorated.

So far, incumbent President Sadyr Japarov and Omurbek Suvanaliev – a politician and former minister of internal affairs – have announced their intentions to run. 

A blueprint for building resilience in the Hindu Kush Himalaya.

The recurring clashes represent the failure of months of diplomacy and external mediation. Where does the Afghanistan-Pakistan relationship go from here?

To some, Trump's hospitality was “historic.” To others, it was an attempt to “lull China into a false sense of security.”

Why has India's manufacturing sector has remained stuck at around 15 percent of GDP despite decades of rapid growth?

Muizzu has promised to submit evidence supporting the Maldives’ claim to Chagos to relevant international bodies.

A spate of Republican senators took umbrage at Trump's reception of “a brutal, unelected, and oppressive dictator.”

Islamabad cannot use its own people’s suffering to erase its record of supporting forces that have devastated lives in other countries.

Airstrikes are no longer intermittent dangers as they were two years ago, but a constant hazard. They are part of the people’s daily lives, woven into their collective consciousness.

Could the conventionally-powered KSS-III sub offer a more affordable and timely alternative to the planned nuclear-powered fleet?

Rights groups claim that Nguyen Duc Thuan and Tran Hiep were abducted in Cambodia, in line with a pattern of growing transnational repression by the Vietnamese state.

Will the region's demand for artificial intelligence services justify the enormous outlays of money and resources?

The petition concerned the use of barcodes and QR codes on ballot papers, which some claimed could breach constitutional requirements for secret voting.

Modernization has expanded women’s choices and made the traditional sequence of adulthood – marry, have children, settle near family – less inevitable.