- March 1st, 2026
Until early April 2025, Southeast Asian capitals seemed almost relaxed about Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Unlike European leaders bracing for another transatlantic breakdown, or East Asian allies fretting about security commitments, governments in ASEAN were relatively sanguine....
When U.S. President Donald Trump floated the idea of reclaiming Afghanistan’s Bagram air base last week, it instantly reignited debates about America’s fraught military history in the region, the future of U.S.–Taliban relations, and China’s growing role in Central Asia....
When US officials weigh the fallout of President Donald Trump’s stunning move to slap a 50% tariff on Indian exports, they may not need to pore over spreadsheets or trade projections. Instead, they can look halfway across the globe to...
When Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, few doubted he would double down on his trademark trade wars. What few predicted was that his sweeping tariffs would reshape the geopolitics of the world’s largest emerging economies,...
When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi traveled to Washington in June 2023, the reception could hardly have been more grand. The White House rolled out the red carpet, staging a state dinner and a congressional address that underlined India’s rising...
U.S. President Donald Trump publicly announced that he had ordered the deployment of two nuclear-powered submarines to undisclosed “appropriate regions.” The move, couched in stark and ominous terms, came in direct response to provocative comments from former Russian President Dmitry...
U.S. President Donald Trump announced a sweeping trade agreement with South Korea, marking a major recalibration of Washington’s Asia-Pacific economic policy. The announcement came just ahead of Trump's self-imposed August 1 deadline to raise tariffs on several U.S. trading partners,...
Hiroshima are once again stirring with the uneasy winds of memory. With the approach of August 6—the anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombing—voices that have long pleaded for disarmament are now echoing louder than ever. But this year, those voices...
Russia launched its most intense drone and missile strike on Ukraine since the start of the war, just hours after a high-stakes phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin ended without any tangible breakthrough. The...
Turkey is making a renewed push to rejoin the F-35 Lightning II fifth-generation stealth fighter jet program—a program it was expelled from in 2019 following its controversial acquisition of the Russian S-400 missile defense system. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,...
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