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The Kuril Islands/Northern Territories have been a constant thorn in Japan-Russia relations. Putin just made it worse.

Lowering political temperatures and exploring limited dialogue have become a priority for the Pakistani government.

Japan’s only treaty ally sanctioned the ICC president – who happens to be a Japanese national. That embodies Japan’s rule-of-law conundrum. 

With the warning of a yet-to-materialize missile test in the Southern Ocean, is Russia playing an old joke on New Zealand?

Insights from Kuni Miyake.

There is a marked asymmetry between high-powered India-Japan diplomacy and their uneven industrial integration.

Xi’s commemoration of Jiang was ultimately less an exercise in historical remembrance than an attempt to impose continuity on the CCP’s post-Mao history. 

Central Asia’s growing international agency needs to be matched by domestic institutions capable of implementing what governments negotiate abroad.

The debate over acquiring nuclear weapons continues in Seoul.

19 more companies have been ordered to close down, and more than 140 have been cut off by their state-owned banking partners. 

India is trying to establish a defensive shield against airborne objects, from drones to missiles.

Kim is in a stronger position today than he was during his summit diplomacy with Trump in 2018 and 2019. But that doesn't mean he has nothing to gain from a meeting.

A new wave of matchmaking influencers explicitly treats marriage as a business transaction – and they brutally judge clients’ prospects accordingly.

Its network is growing, albeit slowly. But this is unlikely to manifest in mass casualty attacks.

The country has so far outpaced most of its regional peers when it comes to the production of renewable energy.

Kem Monovithya's appointment comes three months after her father Kem Sokha received a royal pardon quashing a 27-year sentence for treason.

War with Thailand pushed Cambodia to enact a sweeping scam crackdown. Now the ruling elite is leveraging the same crackdown to consolidate its political control.

Neither region can compete directly with China and the United States, but together they have the potential to show how middle powers can shape the AI economy.

The trip would be the former general's sixth, and third to an ASEAN member state, since his appointment as president in April.

A last-minute order to scale back Ulchi Freedom Shield may have a limited immediate military effect. Its deeper cost is the precedent.