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China wants to welcome foreign investment, but its red lines are shifting. That’s not an attractive proposition for many companies.

Canberra’s position – that Indo-Pacific stability depends not only on military deterrence, but also on the protection of trade flows, energy supplies, critical technologies, and economic sovereignty – has moved to the fore.

China did not launch a large-scale, Taiwan-specific military exercise after the Trump-Xi meeting. But that doesn’t mean the PLAN has been inactive.

While both states share dissatisfaction with the Western-led international order and seek a more multipolar system, the summit revealed important differences.

Afghanistan’s path to international recognition and fuller participation in the global community depends, in part, on the approach the European Union chooses to take.

In Beijing, Islamabad endorsed “Xi’s vision” and global initiatives. China endorsed Pakistan’s position on the Kashmir dispute.

The Arakan Army was accused of slaughtering civilians. But residents say that air strikes and shelling on the village caused the fatalities.

Their customs, norms, language, food and music are different. They have radically different approaches to politics, ideas, and religion too.

Lorcan Lovett speaks about the plight facing Rohingya refugees and the current state of the country's civil war.

The New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor is emerging as a strategic supply line for Beijing – and Singapore helped design it.

Rodrigo Duterte faces three counts of crimes against humanity involving the murders of at least ⁠76 people during violent anti-drug crackdowns.

The country's export-dependent economy has been hit hard by geopolitical turmoil, trade tensions, and the chronic instability of Thai politics.

The visit, which coincided with the 50th anniversary of relations between the two countries, came as part of a tour that also included stops in China and South Korea.

If legitimacy is tied to history, then exactly how that history is interpreted matters beyond conference rooms packed with historians. 

The scam economy is an industrialized system that merges cyber fraud with human trafficking and money laundering, all thriving under political protection.

The former ruling party, once a mainstay of Bangladeshi politics, has largely disappeared from public political life. But its leaders remain defiant.

A patriotic film backfired because a growing number of Han Chinese don’t see the Manchu-origin Qing dynasty as a part of their history.

Insights from James R. Holmes.

Under Pyongyang’s new “two states” policy, sports diplomacy has been repackaged as inter-state, not inter-Korean, exchanges. 

OPCON transfer is not an agreement on how to separate. It's a renewed commitment that makes necessary updates to a 70-year-old framework.