Diplomacy & Crisis News

In the 2026 Indonesia-U.S. Agreement on Reciprocal Trade, the phrase “Indonesia shall” appears more than 200 times. “United States shall” appears in just nine. The agreement may not hold up under international law.

Political concerns over Kurdish involvement overlook more pressing practical issues.

President Lee Jae-myung faces a difficult dilemma as he seeks to uphold the South Korea-U.S. alliance while avoiding entanglement in a drawn-out war against Iran.

“Membership lite” could clear the hurdles to Kyiv’s EU accession.

The status of Chinese spouses of Taiwanese has been increasingly a topic of debate in Taiwan.

The $61 million grant fits a decade-long pattern of Chinese security investment – now accelerating after attacks on Chinese nationals.

Advocates for the U.S.-Israeli special relationship have played a special role.

Timber worth a whopping $40 million is smuggled from Myanmar to India annually. This is a conservative estimate.

A conversation with Michael Martin on the conflict, and how the region should deal with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Name-calling and violence against youth from the country’s Northeast in India’s cities stem from deep racial prejudice.

An economy dependent on fossil fuels planned to wind down, rather than expand, extraction.

There's been widespread focus on foreigners trafficked into Cambodia's cyber-scam compounds. But a growing number of Cambodian nationals are being forced to work in the illegal industry as well.

Indonesia, for one, has a bloody history of fuel-related riots.

Why defense integration could fracture the continent.

One of the great storehouses of public information may soon become collateral damage in the region's child social media bans.

The decision contradicts the values that the U.K. claims to represent, to say nothing of its supposed support for democracy in Myanmar.

With one of the smallest "petroleum buffers" in the region, the Iran war could hit the Vietnamese economy with particular force.

The meeting follows a controversial multi-phase election that was dominated by the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party.

Dans le contexte de la guerre au Moyen-Orient et alors que les Rafale français défendent, eux aussi, le ciel des Émirats arabes unis, Sébastien Lecornu va réunir ce mardi à Matignon plusieurs ministres et responsables civils et militaires pour évaluer la capacité des industriels à répondre aux commandes. Et notamment se pose la question des munitions, précisément les fameux missiles air-air MICA.