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There is little doubt that China-U.S. dynamics will continue to have a major influence over Islamabad's relations with Washington and Beijing. 

15 years of tensions over the massive copper mine boiled over in December 2025. Can Mongolia and the mining giant reach a resolution?

Kazakh authorities, and the Eurasian Economic Commission, say the slowdown is resulting from increased measure to combat the “illegal trafficking of goods.”

Insights from Yi-Ling Liu.

Officially, New Zealand is “assessing” membership. But key government documents suggest many of the practical steps Pillar II of AUKUS would involve are already underway.

The Karachaganak precedent is likely to shape Kazakhstan’s approach to energy governance, production-sharing agreement renegotiations, and investor relations in the years ahead.

The treaty’s looming end sends a damaging signal about how the United States now views nuclear competition – and China is watching.

Fixation on the “no-limits” formula obscures a more consequential development that occurred at the same time. 

The draft Constitution is an elegant blueprint. But what does it promise? And what will audiences, internal and external, read in it?

Takaichi looks set to win a major victory – but voters are laser-focused on economic issues, not her desired security reforms.

The former rapper campaigns in silence. For now, he is winning without speaking. But Nepali elections have a way of demanding answers.

In his unpublished memoir, then-Indian Army Chief Gen. Naravane claims that a key decision on whether or not to fire upon advancing Chinese tanks and troops was left to him to make.

India and the U.S. seem to have agreed only on a framework to address the reciprocal tariff agreement. More work lies ahead for a full trade agreement.

After the collapse of the party's "digital wallet" stimulus plan, voters should not be fooled by its recently announced 1 million-baht election sweepstakes.

Asia’s most iconic species makes an ‘improbable return’ in the forests of Russia and China. 

Chinese analysts talk tough but see NATO as divided and European states as lacking hard power – and Trump is making it worse.

“We will establish the power of the people – this is my commitment,” the BNP leader tells The Diplomat.

We are seeing the return of overt geopolitics: a style of major power politics that does not bother to hide behind international law or multilateral norms. That’s good news for China – and bad news for Taiwan.

President Lee Jae-myung criticized the DP for slowrolling his agenda, and pro-Lee supporters’ anger toward party leader Jung Cheong-rae has snowballed.

Nature provides essential inputs to the economy through ecosystem services. In Asia and the Pacific, accelerating biodiversity loss is eroding these services, increasing vulnerability to shocks, and creating new risks for investors and governments.