Diplomacy & Crisis News

New policies against online “vulgarity” target free speech.

Hinduism may not be as well-defined and creedal as Christianity or Islam, but it is not a meaningless label either. It refers to a real idea.

Xi and Putin in Delhi made the headlines. The declaration tells the real story of India's multi-alignment and why Europe should welcome it.

Siddhant Kishore joins host Tushar Shetty to examine the BRICS summit in New Delhi and the strategic realignment underway across Asia.

Insights from Verineia Codrean.

And the complicated geopolitics of slowing down the technology’s development.

Beijing has opened its enormous market to African exports. Whether that helps the continent move up global value chains is another question.

In the first Central Asia-South Korea leaders summit, energy and critical minerals were top of the agenda. 

Southeast Asia might end up hosting substantial computing capacity without developing a correspondingly deep AI economy.

Kim Jong Un may be ready to introduce his daughter on the global stage.

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How regional developments helped Lebanese Islamists get out of jail.

Taiwan’s Han Kuang exercises are winning public approval, despite the growing impact on civilians. Understanding is another matter.

When it comes to Chinese overseas port projects, negative economic externalities may coexist with positive ones. 

However determined Western governments may be to turn Russia and Iran into pariah states, much of the Global South rejects their isolation.

Its leaders successfully dismantled an old political order but had little knowledge of how to develop the institutions or governing consensus needed to replace it.

On a majority-Muslim island, federalists are sparring with Islamists.

The delusions of summitry and the limits of personalist diplomacy.

The leaders have fundamentally different ideas about the technology and how to regulate it.

NATO suspects that Russia is behind the latest airspace violation in Lithuania.