An Indian Ocean-focused initiative is welcome. But it will need to support a democratic information-sharing culture, if it is to attract participation from all regional countries.

The Tibetan movement has long been dependent on the personal moral authority of the Dalai Lama. In a post-Dalai Lama world, the Central Tibetan Administration will need to step up.

South Korea’s demographic crisis is exposing a deeper problem: how class, gender, education, housing, and family background shape who is considered marriageable.

Rare earth projects require a solid commitment across political cycles, a challenge that the United States has not yet been able to overcome.

As it struggles to ship oil through the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is looking for alternative land routes to import and export ...

By tying caste recognition to religion, the law risks excluding those who continue to face the same discrimination it seeks ...

Chinese leaders have long viewed this dependence as a major strategic liability, leading Chinese President Hu Jintao to coin the term “Malacca Dilemma” in 2003. Beijing fears that hostile powers could ...

Unlike Chinese investments in the past, which were state-backed and focused on infrastructure, the B2B model is more commercial and a business-driven partnership.

Afghanistan’s path to international recognition and fuller participation in the global community depends, in part, on the ...

China did not launch a large-scale, Taiwan-specific military exercise after the Trump-Xi meeting. But that doesn’t mean the ...

Credit: State Emergency Service of Ukraine On the night of May 23-24, Kyiv lived through total terror. Russia launched 600 drones and 90 missiles against the Ukrainian capital in a single overnight ...

Indonesia’s conservative Aceh Province has once again carried out a mass public caning. On May 12, the Southeast Aceh Prosecutor’s Office punished some 15 convicts by flogging the group with over 200 ...