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Insights from Mathieu Boulègue. 

Kashmir's mountains are going to keep getting hotter whether anyone notices or not.

To build a real “drone shield,” Taiwan cannot merely export hardware or components.

In western Uganda, a project funded by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) serves as a test case for what South Korea can offer the continent. 

The exercise highlights growing China-Russia naval interoperability while exposing competing interpretations of maritime law.

A conversation with Phil Robertson, a Bangkok-based human rights advocate.

Much of the world still views Myanmar through a narrow diplomatic lens that cannot encompass the full political complexity of its conflict.

The bloc's foreign ministers are set to call for "the restoration of the safe, unimpeded, and continuous transit passage of vessels and aircraft in the Strait of Hormuz.”

The two sides traded accusations over the confrontation at Second Thomas Shoal, a long-standing focus of maritime tensions between Manila and Beijing.

As Kazakhstan pushes forward to become a leading tech hub in the region, China continues to prove itself a crucial partner.

Global tech governance is taking an institutional turn as a bloc-based system continues to solidify.

The law forbids publicly damaging, removing, or defacing a Japanese flag in a manner likely to cause others “extreme discomfort or disgust.”

The Cockroach Janata Party is leading a youth-heavy protest movement that embodies the public anger with the BJP.

The World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization may prove to be China's most ambitious effort yet to shape the future deployment and governance of AI.

Journalism can help ensure that climate governance is guided by transparency, accountability, and justice.

COP17, which will be hosted by Mongolia in August, “comes at a pivotal moment for global action on land.”

Many of China’s initial, ambitious Arctic objectives collided with political and logistical realities. Now Beijing is testing out an “Arctic 2.0” strategy.

The Falepili Union offers Tuvaluans “mobility with dignity.” But unless Australia also protects Tuvalu’s workforce, the landmark agreement could weaken the country years before rising seas make it uninhabitable.

There are persistent misunderstandings about what the intelligence partnership is, and what it actually does.

Brussels no longer sees China only as an economic actor. It sees China as a challenge to the organization of global order itself.