China’s Quiet Pivot to Central Asian Gas
Credit: Russian Presidential Press and Information Service Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing on May 20 with a delegation built for...
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How China Got One of the World’s Largest Human Rights Convenings Canceled
The closing day of RightsCon 2025, held in Taipei, Taiwan, Feb. 27, 2025. Credit: Flickr/ RightsCon On April 29, the shocking news...
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Pakistan and the Economics of Diplomacy
Khurram Husain, one of Pakistan’s most widely read business and economy journalists and a columnist at Dawn, joins host Tushar Shetty to...
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Will Australia’s Independents Form a Political Party?
Credit: helen35 from Pixabay One of the most interesting democratic movements of recent years has been Australia’s Community Independents Project. The movement...
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China Wants to Speak for Taiwan. The World Should Hear Taiwan Directly.
Credit: Office of the President, ROC (Taiwan)/ Liu Shu-fu Within the span of four weeks, two planes told the story of Taiwan’s...
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Brussels Needs a New Narrative on China-EU Relations
Credit: Depositphotos Europe’s China policy is stuck in a strategic dead end. Instruments aimed at reducing asymmetric dependencies, strengthening competitiveness, and building...
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Amid Rumors of a Visit by China’s Leader, North Korea Fires Close-Range Ballistic Missiles
Credit: Depositphotos North Korea fired several close-range ballistic missiles into the ocean on May 26, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)...
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Theresa Sabonis-Helf on Central Asia’s Thirsty Future Industries
Credit: Tim Broadbent on Unsplash Central Asia is home to one of the most infamous human-caused ecological catastrophes: the dramatic drying-up of...
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More Than Trade: Modi’s Visit to Sweden and Norway
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined his Nordic counterparts in Oslo for the 3rd India–Nordic Summit, May 19, 2026. Credit: Indian Ministry...
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China’s New Type 054B Frigate Joins Liaoning Carrier Group for First Time in Western Pacific
The Luohe, a Type 054B frigate in service with the People’s Liberation Army Navy, during its commissioning in Qingdao, China, July 28,...
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