Indonesia Bans Polymarket After Site Offers Bets on President’s Ouster
Credit: Depositphotos Indonesia has blocked the online prediction market Polymarket, just days after the site set up a betting market on whether...
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Hun Sen Feels the Heat
Cambodian Senate President Hun Sen speaks about efforts to combat online scams during a meeting of senior government officials in Phnom Penh,...
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There Is More Than One Cockroach in Narendra Modi’s Kitchen
Credit: X/Abhijeet Dipke There is seldom just one cockroach in the kitchen. “You turn on the light and they all start scurrying...
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Growing Sino-Russian Cooperation Worries India
Russian President Vladmir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping shake hands during Putin’s state visit to Beijing, May 20, 2026. Credit:...
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No, the Quad Isn’t Dead. This Week’s Foreign Ministers’ Meeting Proves It.
Credit: Penny Wong / Facebook The Quad is not dead. Some are declaring its demise, but this week’s meeting of the foreign...
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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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