- January 27th, 2026
The absence of any reference to the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD) in the United States’ newly released 24-page National Defense Strategy (NDS) on January 23 has reignited debate about the Trump administration’s true commitment to the Indo-Pacific’s most prominent minilateral...
Vaclav Havel’s seminal 1978 essay The Power of the Powerless is rarely encountered today outside university syllabi or the shelves of political theorists. That absence is telling. In an era defined by strategic ambiguity, selective morality and the quiet retreat...
The first official trilateral talks between the United States, Russia and Ukraine since the outbreak of the war in February 2022 briefly raised hopes that diplomacy might finally gain traction. Instead, the meeting ended on Saturday (Jan 24) without a...
A sharply worded editorial published by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Daily has cast an unusually stark spotlight on the political significance of the investigations into two of China’s most senior military leaders, Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli, underscoring what...
As the world turned the page on a turbulent 2025, few could ignore the sense of exhaustion and disillusionment left behind by another year of conflict, war and diplomatic paralysis. Across continents, violence between states and armed groups persisted, while...
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recent visit to Beijing marked a significant moment in Canada-China relations, signaling a cautious thaw in ties that have been strained for nearly a decade. Over several days of meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping...
Tehran’s historic Grand Bazaar, long regarded as a political and economic barometer of the Islamic Republic, became the epicentre of renewed unrest in late December as merchants staged protests against Iran’s theocratic rulers over the sharp collapse of the national...
Donald Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims during his first term in office, according to calculations published by The Washington Post in 2021—an average of roughly 21 a day. That record was widely seen as unprecedented in modern US...
The United States’ direct operation in Venezuela, which resulted in the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, has sent shockwaves across the world, prompting widespread condemnation and raising profound questions about regional geopolitics, economic interests, and...
Donald Trump stunned allies and critics alike on Saturday by shifting the focus of a dramatic U.S. military operation in Venezuela away from drugs and security and squarely onto oil, repeatedly portraying the seizure of Nicolás Maduro as an act...
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