Indo-Pacific
Philippines-US Relations and the China Factor
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s visit to US, April 11-13, 2024, and the first trilateral summit between leaders of Japan, US and Philippines has...
US-China Rivalry and ASEAN’s Fine Balancing Act
In recent years, Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries have emphatically underscored the point -- on umpteen occasions -- that they would...
India’s Pivot to Climate Diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific
Climate change is a very real threat to security in the Indo-Pacific region, with estimates placing 89 million people at risk of being displaced...
China’s Hostage Diplomacy
The international system that has evolved in the 21st century may have moved far away from the World Wars, but what remains a fact...
U.S. Extended Deterrence and the Korean Peninsula’s Changing Threat Environment
From the perspective of the average South Korean, the Weapons of Mass Destruction threat from North Korea is as ubiquitous as a typhoon and...
Is China Willing to Take Pains to Reform its Economy?
After the latest gathering of China’s top-governing body Politburo to review its first quarter economic performance, the state-run Xinhua News Agency released a commentary...
China and Xinjiang: The Fate of BRI
Investments have either built or doomed empires. For the former to be materialized, investments are to be made considering factors beyond the purely economic...
Revolution and Upheaval in China: The Lasting Legacy of May 4th, 1919
100 years ago the Paris peace conference in the aftermath of World War I came to a close; the Western allies, victorious over Imperial...
Masood Azhar: A Tale of Chinese Realpolitik
The technical hold of China at UNSC 1267 Committee came as a little surprise to India as it was China’s fourth ‘block’ on the...
Growing Friction in US-China Relations: Manageable Differences or Major Crisis?
Major tensions on crucial security issues have not come in the way of economic and people-to-people ties between Washington DC and Beijing, over the...
Christchurch Shootings: Terror That Brought a Nation to a Halt
What happened in Christchurch on March 15, 2019, was heartbreaking. The carnage attests to the fact that extremism obeys no boundaries, no borders, no...
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Iran’s Ascendant Arsenal and King David’s Nuclear Slingshot
In the unfolding tapestry of Middle Eastern geopolitics, the...
Geopolitics
Philippines-US Relations and the China Factor
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s visit to US, April...
South Asia
Empowering Women: Fostering Collective Action in Nepalese Cooperatives
Collective action has been a fundamental aspect of human...
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A Real and Charming China in the Eyes of Taiwan Youths
As the yearning for more cross-Straits communications between the...
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Why Macron Is Thinking About Western Intervention in Ukraine
Emmanuel Macron, the President of France, initially took a...
