Most interesting is that the wiretap mess… has exposed a deeper political fault line involving the always-uneasy relationship ...

The recent visit of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to India for talks with business leaders and External Affairs Minister ...

Xi Jinping has continued as the undisputed heavyweight leader of China after the Fifth Plenum, a closed-door meeting in ...

Malaysia’s quiet diplomacy in the South China Sea is more than hedging or positioning between two rival powers. At its core, the policy is intended to soften China’s assertiveness by ensuring that the ...

More assets are expected to be seized in the wake of the largest forfeiture action in the history of the US Department of Justice, involving a “pig butchering” online scam allegedly operated by a ...

d War II defense export policies, lifting strict limits on the export of lethal weapons. In April, Japan permitted lethal weapons to be sold to 17 eligible partners, including Indonesia and the ...

In early 2025, Chinese engineers working on Niger’s US$4.6 billion oil pipeline to Benin were forced to flee their worksites under armed escort. For days, convoys burned on the desert highway linking ...

South Asia’s new governments have discovered that overthrowing an old political order is easier than escaping the economic constraints that helped destroy it in the first place. In less than two years ...

The South Korean arms-maker Hanwha Aerospace last week broke ground on a production facility in Romania, marking its first defense manufacturing base in Europe. Initially tasked with the production of ...

The sudden, prolonged disappearance of Minnie Chan, a South China Morning Post defense reporter who has written knowledgeably of changes at the top of the People’s Liberation Army command structure, ...

A shape-shifting South African named Benjamin Mauerberger, sometimes known as Ben Smith, has built ties to both the Thaksin Shinawatra and Hun Sen dynasties in Thailand and Cambodia that have earned ...

Singaporean courts have become a battlefield where commodities trading companies are suing each other for billions of dollars. Multiple creditors have sued Radiant World Corporation, a Singaporean ...