The Diplomat

Pressure is building for a change.

Pyongyang portrays AUKUS as a dangerous threat, but has it really influenced North Korea’s evolving grand strategy?

In Kazakhstan, although Victory Day celebrations still took place on May 9, the Soviet focus is increasingly being replaced by expressions of national pride.

Can India and the Netherlands transform their growing cooperation into a fully-fledged strategic partnership with a clear long-term vision?

Southeast Asian countries are taking steps to counter drone threats. What’s really needed is a multilayered defense network.

Like other Global South countries, Pakistan would like to pursue cooperation with both the US and China. Will the Beijing summit facilitate that?

Vietnam’s critical minerals strategy applies the doctrine of strategic autonomy to a new sector. The visit by Japan’s PM shows what that approach can deliver and where it falls short.

Three lockdowns conditioned a population to accept the airtight, but invisible, seal that followed

Three years ago, only a fraction of the global public held more favorable opinions of China than of the U.S. Today, China and even Russia have a better global image.

There was no "grand bargain" on Taiwan, but Taipei is still waiting for Trump to approve the latest arms package.

Since COVID-19, the grounds for execution in North Korea have been shifting away from ordinary violent crime and toward outside information, religion, and political dissent.

Rights groups say ASEAN and the international community must have direct access to Aung San Suu Kyi.

The state’s woes are of its own making. Since independence, successive governments implemented policies that repelled foreign investment.

Why the new frame of “constructive China-U.S. relationship of strategic stability” matters. 

New survey data from Hong Kong Watch helps quantify the scale of the problem – including among Hong Kongers not engaged in public activism.

The 2026 NPT Review Conference is unfolding against a backdrop of geopolitical upheaval. Absent strong U.S. leadership inside and outside the conference, even modest success appears remote. 

For Seoul, what the leaders of the great superpowers left unsaid in Beijing may matter more than what they agreed on.

Rahmon's four-day state visit also produced more than $8 billion in projected investment deals and confirmed Beijing's displacement of Moscow as Dushanbe's principal economic patron.

India thought it had an agreement with the RSP leadership on its interests being accommodated.

There was a lot of grand talk about stabilizing the relationship, and few deliverables.