Diplomacy

South Africa recently told Taiwan to move its unofficial embassy from Pretoria to Johannesburg.

Given deep linkages in multifaceted directions, the derailment of India’s ties with Western countries would require geopolitical realignment, which seems unlikely at this stage.

The Central Asian countries are caught between a rock and a hard place when it comes to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and it showed in their most recent UNGA speeches.

Ideological politics is not on the agenda for these states, but economics, climate, and food security are. 

The country's omnidirectional foreign policy doctrine cushions it from changes in the domestic affairs of key partner states.

For 13 Asia-Pacific countries, we ask: Would the government prefer Kamala Harris or Donald Trump as the next U.S. president?

The announcement comes after the nation and three Southeast Asian neighbors were anointed BRICS "partner countries."

As it prepares to helm the bloc, can Malaysia reignite the flame of Southeast Asian regionalism?

While the steps taken to de-escalate tensions along the India-China border are significant, they are merely the beginning of a long process.

While BRICS must be taken seriously, it would be wrong to interpret it as one pole of a two-sided geopolitical competition between China and Russia and the West. 

The handshake on the sidelines of the BRICS summit happened days after India announced that the two countries had reached a border patrolling agreement