By understanding Cambodia’s threat perceptions and the influence of the kingdom’s domestic politics on its defence and foreign policies, Western partners will be better able to balance China’s ...

US President Donald Trump’s weekend announcement of a US mediated “full and immediate ceasefire” between India and Pakistan surprised both domestic and international observers. It came just days after ...

The likelihood of any Western country actually going to war in Myanmar, even through proxy forces, is vanishingly small. No strategic imperative, as regards China’s long-term ambitions in the region, ...

The concerted pushback against Musk and Tesla in America itself, as well as places such as Germany and Canada, which have been the victims of Trump’s erratic policies, has caused a plunge in car sales ...

The media typically only has enough space to focus on one big story at a time. Trump’s tariffs are dominating now. Last week it was “Signal-gate”, after a journalist was added to a White House-led ...

Like the 1985 Plaza Accord, part of the proposed solution is to force the rest of the world to appreciate their currencies to improve US export competitiveness. You can already see the effort here to ...

But the monetary value of foreign tourism to North Korea has crashed compared to before 2020. Due to international sanctions, foreign tourism was one of the few legal channels through which North ...

China is widely assumed to be the biggest beneficiary, although the full extent of the impact remains unquantified. A back-of-the-envelope calculation, however, offers some insight into the upheaval ...

Formally, the law protects only the king, the queen, the heir apparent and regent from defamation or insults. However, courts have also punished people for comments about other royal family members, ...

However, the idea that young men are simply struggling to adapt to modern times is outdated. They grew up in households where women worked and in societies where gender roles were already shifting.

Senior US official statements more recently frame it as Xi seizing on 2027, the 100th anniversary of the PLA’s founding, to complete the material preparation required to make major combat operations ...

WHO’s budget was already spread thin, and its mandate keeps growing, with budget estimates for 2026-27 already 9% higher than the current biennium. But the loss of US funding – particularly its ...