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A new political center is taking shape in Japan, one that is pushing the old center-left to the margins of the political spectrum. 

Opportunity, risk and the commitment gap

Cargo-laden trucks are already plying six new overland routes linking its major ports to the Iranian border and onward to Central Asia.

Thai Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow said that Bangkok will cease all other bilateral talks while mediation is in progress.

Min Aung Hlaing's “civilian” government rests on a sophisticated propaganda architecture, and the independent media needed to challenge it is running out of funds.

The U.S., not Delhi or Caracas, announced Venezuela’s Acting President Delcy Rodríguez’s visit to India last week. The U.S. role in pushing the oil trade is hard to ignore.

The rise of majoritarian politics globally, combined with a shifting geopolitical calculus around India, has created openings for the RSS that did not exist a decade ago.

The grouping is unlikely to harden into an “Asian NATO.” For Beijing, the more consequential contest is over supply chains, technology standards, and the rules of the Indo-Pacific economy.

Why Seoul picked the PPP incumbent yet again, and what it means for the city.

Organized crime groups with roots in Taiwan have become a useful tool for the CCP – in Taiwan and, increasingly, abroad.

Is a teenage girl being positioned as North Korea's next leader?

Tashkent and Moscow celebrated the start of construction on the plant – two months after the companies involved celebrated the same thing.

Chinese activities in Bolivia have deteriorated remarkably from their heyday under the populist leftist governments of Evo Morales and Luis Arce.

The challenge is not just preventing war between China and the U.S. It’s how to prevent their rivalry from becoming the sole organizing principle of international politics.

The controversial comment was made on the eve of ruling party chief Ravi Lamichhane’s visit to India.

India’s deep tech space startups are transforming the country’s space ambitions, as the state increasingly supports private innovation to strengthen India’s strategic and economic position in the global space race.

Pacific governments have launched the world's first regional framework for planned climate relocation, creating new guidance for communities facing displacement from rising seas, coastal erosion, and intensifying storms.

The U.S. defense secretary failed to mention Taiwan once during his closely-watched speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue.

If Democrats ride a “blue wave” to reclaim the House in November’s mid-term elections – a distinct possibility – U.S. China policy will become dangerously volatile.

It is no surprise that Beijing is now embracing this construct, hoping to shift the responsibility for stability and avoiding escalation onto Washington.