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External threats have prompted India’s enhanced military presence and upgradation of infrastructure along the Siliguri Corridor and in the Northeast.

If confirmed, the trip to Beijing would be To Lam's first since his historic appointment as state president earlier this week.

Since its founding, AmCham has played an important role in shaping U.S.-Mongolia business relations.

For Belgrade, the logic behind the acquisition of Chinese CM-400AKG missiles is multifaceted.

The young leader's sudden rise raises questions about the future of Mongolia's democracy and its balanced approach to foreign policy.

In an era defined by overlapping crises and intensifying strategic competition, the two nation's security partnership is more important than ever.

Whatever goodwill Lee’s expression of regret over past drone incursions may have produced, Pyongyang's hostile posture toward South Korea remains unchanged.

The state has shown that domestic change is possible at the sub-national level. Can Australia leverage that momentum to shape the sector’s regional transition?

For Islamabad, mediation is not a display of geopolitical muscle but an act of strategic self-preservation.

Authoritarian systems rarely resist reform. Instead, they use it as a means of renewing and strengthening themselves.

The U.S. appears to have set aside its ambition of pursuing regime change in Iran, as it is now negotiating directly with the system it sought to replace.

China’s preferred style of mediation involves quiet and behind-the-scenes facilitation rather than high-profile spectacles or photo-ops.

Reading the tea leaves in South Asia and the Middle East, Beijing is positioning itself as a peacemaker and a stabilizing force in the present geopolitical flux. 

The Iran war is not merely an economic shock for the Philippines, it is a strategic stress test of the Marcos Jr. administration’s pro-U.S. alignment. 

Insights from Frank Dikötter

East Asia has long balanced the competing dynamics of competition and cooperation, yet the challenge of navigating them has never been greater. 

Kyrgyzstan has become a de facto “crypto corridor” linking sanctioned Russian flows with trade in Central Asia and supply chains from China.

When Singapore restricted data center growth to protect its own resources, the environmental cost shifted to Johor in neighboring Malaysia.

A largely Hindi-belt party, the BJP is looking to break into the strongholds of regional parties in West Bengal, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

By integrating defense industries and geoeconomic statecraft, Europe and its Indo-Pacific partners are jointly building risk-diversifying mechanisms to navigate the U.S.-China-Russia great power competition.