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Repeated military cooperation can help build predictability, trust, interoperability, and institutionalized relationships among participants. 

The deteriorating security environment in the region thus reinforces the importance of China-Pakistan military cooperation.

A diplomatic spat and a comment that caused controversy.

Japanese exporters enjoy high demand and strong profit margins, but importers are under severe pressure. The weak yen also hurts Japanese consumers.

Tencent’s new payment app shows how China’s tech companies can lower barriers for foreign users without fundamentally changing the systems behind them.

“If we are serious about the CCP as our foremost long-term strategic challenge, we should end the Iran war and rebuild depleted stockpiles, immediately.”

China’s climate cooperation with Africa is becoming more investment-led, with a focus on industrialization.

The U.S. secretary of state’s itinerary skipped the corridors of power in Delhi for boardrooms and a refinery. 

He visited Jamnagar, home to the world’s largest oil refinery, which is run by Reliance Industries. The latter plans to build a refinery in Texas.

The BJP government in the state stripped the festival of its secular-cultural uniqueness to impose religious and ritualistic practices that are anathema to Bengalis.

Jakarta has serious questions to answer about the credibility of its capital markets and the effectiveness of the institutions responsible for regulating them.

Anwar Ibrahim said that Waze, which was developed in Tel Aviv before being acquired by Google in 2013, could be "exploited by the Israeli regime."

Kim Aris called for the release of all political prisoners in Myanmar and said that his mother "must never be held hostage or used as a bargaining chip."

A joint communique ups the diplomatic rhetoric but offers no solutions.

Typically, South Korea has used loudspeakers to respond to North Korean provocations. Now Pyongyang has vowed to turn them on – and the prospects for de-escalation are dim.

China is building a dense network of relationships across all pillars of influence while the United States continues to weaken the institutions it traditionally used to compete.

Any Sino-American conflict would place enormous pressure on fuel supplies. U.S. fuel dependence turns Manila’s energy fragility into a strategic vulnerability.

Clear ground rules could not only help resolve the North Korean POW standoff but prevent the next case.

From Hong Kong to Bangkok, Paris, Taiwan, and North America, LGBTQ communities are encountering censorship, surveillance, and coercive pressure linked to China. 

Authorities have directed satellite TV channels to refrain from broadcasting or providing live coverage of "unpleasant incidents," meaning shootings, blasts and terrorist attacks.