August 2021

Beijing’s outreach to Africa is largely driven by the desire for support on the international stage from the continent’s 54 countries.

Indian politicians are rushing to claim credit for the country’s sports heroes.

The answer is less clear now, in 2021, than it was in 1996. 

Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig were detained in China in what critics labeled "hostage politics" in 2018. 

Ardern said it was clear that the immigration laws of the 1970s were designed to specifically target Pasifika people, indigenous peoples of the Pacific Islands. 

Why is India cozying up to Iran?

Bilateral cooperation is slowly beginning to move beyond the economic realm that has long been its foundation.

The Chinese-financed Lower Sesan 2 dam has had a range of deleterious consequences – just what activists were warning a decade ago.

The firm's successes encapsulate the broader goals of Indonesia's state-owned sector.

Washington's current approach to Southeast Asia underestimates China's increasing lead in digital trade and technology.

The envoy's mission relies on good faith commitment on the part of the junta, but this remains unlikely.

The relationship hinges on proudly democratic Taiwan befriending an absolute monarch. Will pro-democracy protests spell the end of King Mswati’s rule – and relations with Taipei?