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SINGAPORE AS A “STEADFAST SUPPORTER” Mr Wong earlier spoke about France and Singapore sharing numerous common areas, including in sectors such as security, economy and energy. ...
WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — Saudi royalty and American billionaires were in the front row for a speech in Riyadh where President Donald Trump condemned what...
According to Encyclopedia Britannica, a middle power can be defined as “a state that holds a position in the international power spectrum that is in the...
There has been a lot of diplomatic activity between Pakistan and the United States in recent weeks regarding cooperation in the area of critical minerals. At...
China’s paramount leader Xi Jinping arrived in Malaysia on April 15 for talks with key leaders, once again attempting to capitalize on the negative regional reaction...
Eight months after the ouster of Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh’s Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus met for the first...
After Vietnam and the United States upgraded their relationship to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in September 2023, China swiftly responded to avoid losing strategic influence in...
An idyllic island in the Gulf of Thailand has recently become a subject of contention between nationalists in Thailand and Cambodia, derailing negotiations over the joint...
As the United States officially launched a tariff war against China, China convened an unusual Central Conference on Work Relating to Neighboring Countries on April 8...
Last week, amid various domestic and international challenges, Germany’s conservative center-right Christian Democratic Party (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), announced a...
At the 150th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union held on April 7 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev once again called on the international community to...
Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim will meet with the head of Myanmar’s military junta in Bangkok this week, to push for the extension of a ceasefire...
President Xi Jinping has called for China and Vietnam to develop stronger economic and trade ties, as both nations seek to shore up core economic relationships...
India and Sri Lanka signed seven Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the island on April 4-6. The MoUs cover...
On March 26, 2025, Muhammad Yunus, the chief adviser of the interim government of Bangladesh, visited China and signed an agreement on economic and technological cooperation...
Labor requirements in the Pacific are often framed in terms of Australia and New Zealand’s need for agricultural workers, or, increasingly, aged care. Yet other countries...
“We’re not the government of the world,” Marco Rubio told a BBC reporter at NATO Headquarters in Brussels on April 4. The U.S. Secretary of State defended...
Chinese President Xi Jinping has vowed to deepen his country’s strategic partnership with Indonesia, ahead of a regional tour that will take him to three Southeast...
On April 9, U.S. President Donald Trump announced a significant escalation in the ongoing trade conflict with China, raising tariffs on Chinese imports to 125 percent....
Within the space of six weeks, over February and March, I went from Fiji to Munich to Delhi. The tensions that arose from announcements of the...
On April 29, 2005, Japan and India authorized the “strategic orientation” of their Global Partnership, initially established in August 2000. Later, this partnership evolved into a...
On April 7, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar held a telephone conversation with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio – their first discussion since the current...
Amid the high-profile examples of U.S. engagement with South Asia – including last February’s visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the United States –...
On August 19, 2023, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, then a Sri Lankan opposition leader, criticized a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that then-President Ranil Wickremesinghe had signed with...
Indonesia is ready to shelter temporarily, Palestinians affected by the war in Gaza, the country’s president said yesterday, as he began a diplomatic tour to the...
During his tour of Central America, one of the main topics on U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s agenda was China’s growing influence in the region....
The Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia policy. This conversation with...
On February 28, European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas declared that “the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take...
On March 16, Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) chief Daniel Rogers was in New Delhi to attend a meeting of intelligence chiefs chaired by India’s National...
Myanmar’s opposition National Unity Government (NUG) has made a strong case for India’s increased engagement with the country’s resistance movement aimed at toppling the military regime....
This year marks the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Mongolia and Czechia. In celebration of the anniversary, in March Mongolian President Khurelsukh Ukhnaa paid a...
In November 2020, Sitiveni Rabuka broke the diplomatic convention of avoiding partisan commentary on other countries’ politics by publicly declaring support for Donald Trump in the...
On March 31, Russia’s Supreme Court announced that it had received a petition from Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov seeking to lift the ban on the Taliban. The Supreme...
Never mind giving a man a fishing rod; give a journalist an opinion survey and they’ll churn out more copy than a Russian chatbot. Maybe not,...
In a year that the United States and Vietnam will celebrate the 30th anniversary of diplomatic normalization, U.S. President Donald Trump poured cold water on the...
On April 4-5, leaders of the BIMSTEC countries — Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Thailand — gathered in Bangkok for the grouping’s sixth...
There has been a little time to digest the summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, the first of its kind, bringing together all five Central Asian heads of...
A recent Lowy Institute report on Southeast Asia’s engagement with Chinese development finance provides a useful foundation for understanding how the region is managing an evolving...
The April 4 meeting between Nepali Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli and his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, on the sidelines of the 6th BIMSTEC Summit in...
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 provoked global outrage and isolated the country from many of the world’s most important global markets and institutions. Three...
On April 3-4, delegations from the European Union and the five Central Asian nations will convene in Samarkand for the first-ever Central Asia-European Union Summit. This...
