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The country's preference for an open and predicable international order is shared by most of its Asian neighbors.

Lee Jae Myung is the first foreign leader to visit Vietnam since the confirmation of the country's new leadership earlier this month.

Newly inaugurated President Min Aung Hlaing also announced a reduction in the 27-year prison sentence of ousted former leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

The canonization process for Sybil Kathigasu underscores how Pope Francis’s legacy continues to shift the lines of Catholicism, in subtle and surprising ways.

For the past decade, India-South Korea interactions have been limited. President Lee’s upcoming visit is set to change that.

What do Japanese and Chinese think about each other’s countries? Let’s look at the numbers.  

BRICS appears to be more riddled with internal conflicts than most multilateral groups.

A constitutional revision solves the wrong problem – and creates new complications.

India has turned the corner in its battle against Naxalism – and effectively governing its own margins is an essential step toward global power status.

The Indian Ocean has no shortage of distressed strategic assets: financially stressed yards, ports, and logistics infrastructure in small states that cannot sustain them independently.

With Viktor Orban’s election loss, Pedro Sanchez is now Beijing’s most useful European leader.

In an era defined by geopolitical fragmentation, the Australia-Japan partnership shows how middle powers can cooperate to mitigate risk and enhance resilience. 

Despite the swearing-in of a new "civilian" government, progress on the project is likely to remain sluggish.

Meeting in Beijing, To Lam and Xi Jinping declared that they view the bilateral relationship "as a strategic choice of overarching and long-term significance.”

The economic brunt of a prolonged war would be borne by the Indian and Pakistani people, who have no part in it but no escape from its consequences.

For decades, the Southeast Asian bloc has envisioned the creation of a region-spanning power grid. Is the project finally set for take-off?

During his quick visits to the two nations, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his hosts pledged to “strengthen energy supply chain resilience.”

The country is betting on nuclear power to secure its energy future – but it is doing so in one of the most water-stressed regions in the world.

Russia’s law suggests that Moscow is not preparing the Northern Sea Route for international use. It may instead be profiting from a misplaced expectation.

Climate disinformation is strategically deployed to reinforce red-tagging narratives, portraying Indigenous resistance to mining, energy, and infrastructure projects as a threat to national security.