THE DIPLOMAT

  1. Returning to the Land or Turning Toward the Sea? India’s Role in America’s Pivot

    RegionSecuritySouth AsiaTopicIndia

    China is pushing the U.S. and India closer. Are they focusing on the wrong set of challenges?

  2. Julia Gillard’s China Play

    East AsiaPoliticsRegionSecurityTopic

    By any measure Julia Gillard's trip to Beijing was a success. However, her most visionary goal remains unfulfilled.

  3. Saudi’s Nitaqat Law: Trouble for Indian Expats?

    EconomyRegionSocietySouth Asia

    Saudi Arabia’s enforcement of labor localization rules has sent many Indian workers hurrying home. How severe will the impact be?

  4. Debunking Panorama Paranoia: North Korea Tour Leader Simon Cockerell

    East AsiaPoliticsSecuritySociety

    Simon Cockerell of Koryo Tours on what it's really like to visit North Korea.

  5. Game Changer: The F-35 and the Pacific

    EconomyRegionSecurityTopic

    To understand the real value of the F-35 one must consider its operation as a fleet, not simply as an individual aircraft.

  6. Patience, Not Preemption, on the Korean Peninsula

    East AsiaRegionSecurityTopicNorth Korea

    "The history of North Korea suggests that its leadership acts with greatest vehemence when it is internally weak, as a way to justify its economic failures by blaming a foreign conspiracy..."

  7. Nearing A Fait Accompli

    RegionSecuritySouth AsiaTopicIran

    "We are approaching a point where...the international community will no longer have any realistic option to veto an Iranian decision to build nuclear weapons."