Diplomacy

South Korean discourses are notably critical of both the Chinese and U.S. positions amid the ongoing pandemic.

After weeks of planning, the long-promised emergency meeting on the crisis in Myanmar finally has a date.

"The partnership is changing, but the partnership itself is enduring,” Blinken said during his unannounced visit to Afghanistan.

If they are concerned that “democracy is in retreat,” the U.K. and other leading European democracies might want to consider their own retrograde roles in the process.

The 14-year-old was about to be deported to Myanmar from India when authorities refused to admit her back. Meanwhile, she wants to be reunited with her parents in Bangladesh.

A Taliban spokesman said the group was not ready to attend the conference the U.S. and the Afghan government had hoped to start on April 16.

The two Muslim-majority Southeast Asian states cannot avoid domestic implications from their policies toward the Middle East.

If both leaders play their cards right, ties between Tokyo and Washington could anchor a peaceful and rules-based order in the Indo-Pacific for years to come.

The benefits -- zero tariffs on a range of goods -- come with rights monitoring requirements of shortcomings Uzbekistan may have difficulty improving.

The Turkic Council aims to grow its political and economic significance.

The comments by the country's top diplomat touched on a number of core Malaysian anxieties about China.