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South Korea’s push for nuclear-powered submarines could transform it from a US security client into an undersea strategic power, while at the same time accruing steep financial, technological an...
Myanmar’s revolution is now being decided as much in headlines and briefing rooms as in the wartime hills of Sagaing and Karenni. The most dangerous narratives are no longer the crude slogans on milit...
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s state visit to China on May 25, 2026, sent a major geopolitical and geoeconomic signal at a moment when the international system is becoming increasingly fragmente...
Wars in the Middle East are often decided less by what is destroyed than by what continues functioning afterward — and how quickly those systems begin to fail. That distinction has become harder to ig...
In April, China’s National Development and Reform Commission moved to unwind Meta’s planned US$2 billion acquisition of Manus, the AI-agent startup founded in Beijing that had relocated its headquarte...
This article was originally published by ProPublica. It is republished with permission. When the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a small North Carolina startup linked to Donald Tru...
When Shinsegae Group chairman Chung Yong-jin bowed before cameras in Seoul on May 26, 2026, it marked his second public apology in two weeks. The controversy stemmed from a Starbucks Korea promotion l...
South Korea’s latest Starbucks controversy is not only about a badly judged marketing campaign. It is about a recurring political habit: When public outrage gathers force, powerful actors treat collec...
Taiwanese authorities have busted a smuggling ring that used Japan as a waypoint to funnel Super Micro Computer servers loaded with high-end Nvidia artificial intelligence (AI) chips into China, arres...
As Asia’s premier defense forum opens in Singapore on May 29, the annual Shangri-La Dialogue is morphing from a venue of superpower posturing into a high-stakes market for strategic hedging. Driven by...
As Donald Trump and Xi Jinping embraced the language of “constructive strategic stability” in Beijing, Myanmar’s war was again showing what calm between great powers can mean at China’s frontier. In M...
China’s financial policymakers face a genuine dilemma. On one side, the country intends to gain deeper access to global capital markets, internationalize the renminbi and build a world-class market in...
As negotiations to end the Iran war continued on May 25, Donald Trump made a series of phone calls in which he pressed key leaders from the Middle East to join the Abraham Accords. Announced in 2020, ...
Speaking on Wednesday (May 27), Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda cautioned that central banks must prevent this year’s oil‑driven inflation surge from hardening into a lasting global problem. “If inf...
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On April 30, the US Trade Representative designated Vietnam as a Priority Foreign Country for intellectual property, the most severe classification in the annual Special 301 Report and the first time ...
Indonesia embodies one of the strangest paradoxes in emerging-market economics. Every time global commodity prices, from coal to crude palm oil (CPO), surge, the country posts impressive trade surplus...
Analysts have tried to make sense of US President Donald Trump’s second term with countless, sometimes contradictory, labels. He’s isolationist and transactional. He’s a populist. Or, more recently, a...
Every year, in a gleaming hotel ballroom in Singapore, the Indo-Pacific strategic order gets set for a public display. This happens not through signing of communiqués or conventions but through who sh...
India and Pakistan are no strangers to heat. This time of year is the worst, as heat peaks before the monsoon brings cooler conditions from June. But this year’s heat is something else. Intense, susta...