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Amid the expected pomp and circumstance, what can we expect from the Trump-Xi summit?

Dr. Anil Kakodkar, former chair of India's Atomic Energy Commission, joins the podcast to discuss the history and future of India’s three-stage nuclear program.

The austerity measures are aimed at dealing with oil and gas shortages and conserving foreign exchange.

In what can only be described as collective punishment, the young son of detained artist Gao Zhen is being prevented from returning home to the United States

Following the 2025 regional drought, Kazakhstan authorities have warned about below-average reservoir levels and the possibility for summer shortages.

The meeting will be a stark display of Trump and Xi’s shared anti-human rights vision of transactional geopolitics. Accountability will have to come from elsewhere.

KP police are the most targeted by terrorists. They are also the worst paid.

Oil disruptions are cascading into fertilizer markets, weakening agriculture and putting South Asia’s food security at risk. We've seen this pattern before.

Beijing rewrote two slogans before it sealed the country – once to rewrite history, once to prewrite the future.

New Delhi has hedged more toward China without articulating any conditions. Beijing is taking full advantage.

How to make sense of a number of apparently contradictory outlooks on the country's economic and fiscal health.

The country's military government has claimed ownership of a rock worth millions of dollars.

Pakistan is more confident, both in its military capabilities and diplomatic space regionally and beyond, and has moved beyond a purely defensive posture

They have been terrorized by the Bangladesh army, Muslim settlers from the plains, and armed ethnic outfits for decades.

Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa has locked himself inside his Senate office in order to avoid arrest and extradition to The Hague-based court.

The 47-year-old is accused of a range of crimes, including corruption, misuse of government funds, and plotting to kill her former ally, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

While Beijing has sought to diversify suppliers, expand storage capacity, and build alternative transport corridors, its energy security ultimately remains dependent on a few maritime chokepoints.

China’s belated confirmation of the visit reflects Beijing’s broader approach to Washington under Trump’s second administration: do not initiate, do not refuse, and do not compromise.

If Trump sits across from Xi and fails to raise the cases of Uyghur Americans and their families, Beijing will read that omission not as pragmatism, but as weakness.

Insights from Tokyo's handling of the Iraq War could help Japan navigate the current demands from the United States regarding the Strait of Hormuz.