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This is Pakistan’s most significant formal defense pact in decades, and the first such agreement that an Arab Gulf state has inked with a nuclear-armed partner.

Leaked documents from Geedge Networks and GoLaxy show how repression in China is both a political imperative and a profitable business.

That Indonesia’s costly high-speed rail is operating at a loss right out of the gate has raised some eyebrows.

Kim Jong Un showed his tit-for-tat move against the latest South Korea-U.S. military drills.

China’s limited success in managing the political risks of the BRI has resulted in reputational costs and played a role in China’s curtailed flow of BRI lending in recent years.

Far from consolidating, recognition by the international community could expose the group’s rifts over resources, external demands, and identity.

It is nearly impossible for even the closest U.S. allies to comply with its byzantine immigration system. That needs to change.

Treasury’s latest sanctions show momentum, but contradictions in U.S. policy risk blunting their impact.

Geopolitics in East Asia is pushing Ulaanbaatar and Tokyo to rely more on each other.

Recent trends cast doubt on the long-standing assumption that young people in Japan are politically irrelevant.

Unlike when the U.S. held unipolar power, times have changed as China and the BRICS countries begin fashioning a non-militarized, multipolar world. 

China is willing to stand with non-Western partners firmly, but remains determined to avoid Cold War-style alliances.

After evacuating thousands of Thais from Israel in 2023, the Thai military is thinking more about how it could get citizens out of other hotspots.

The International Deep Space Exploration Association (IDSEA) signals China’s ambition to become a central node in the architecture of space governance

Taliban women willingly uphold and enforce the regime’s harsh ideology, fully embracing the strict roles assigned to them.

Relations have taken a step forward, but how much of it is substantive?

The Muslim community is not monolithic, but people of different sects lived peacefully, side by side. That has changed over the past year.

The deal permits American companies to spend billions for an algorithm ultimately controlled by the CCP. How did we get here?

An thus ends a bizarre trial that serves to illustrate a distressing pattern of Kyrgyz authorities targeting media whose work focuses on government corruption.

Both the “engineering state” and the “mayor economy” framings obscure the critical mechanics of China’s growth machine.