By understanding Cambodia’s threat perceptions and the influence of the kingdom’s domestic politics on its defence and foreign policies, Western partners will be better able to balance China’s ...

This is not an isolated lapse. The incident, like the Pulwama attack in 2019, once again exposes the glaring vulnerabilities in India’s intelligence and response mechanisms. In both cases, advance ...

In the PLA context, clientelist and professional relations can be seen in linkages between Xi and members of the so-called “Shaanxi Gang”, including Xi’s connections as a “princeling” to CMC Vice ...

The concerted pushback against Musk and Tesla in America itself, as well as places such as Germany and Canada, which have been the victims of Trump’s erratic policies, has caused a plunge in car sales ...

Like the 1985 Plaza Accord, part of the proposed solution is to force the rest of the world to appreciate their currencies to improve US export competitiveness. You can already see the effort here to ...

But the monetary value of foreign tourism to North Korea has crashed compared to before 2020. Due to international sanctions, foreign tourism was one of the few legal channels through which North ...

China is widely assumed to be the biggest beneficiary, although the full extent of the impact remains unquantified. A back-of-the-envelope calculation, however, offers some insight into the upheaval ...

Formally, the law protects only the king, the queen, the heir apparent and regent from defamation or insults. However, courts have also punished people for comments about other royal family members, ...

The surface vessels are potent. Between them, the Renhai and Jiangkai II possess 152 vertical launch system (VLS) missile cells. Most of the missiles in these cells would be dedicated to hitting enemy ...

The signs earlier in the week had pointed to a more productive meeting. Donald Trump had rolled back his narrative about Volodymyr Zelenskyy being a dictator, and the minerals agreement may have seen ...

In On War, Carl von Clausewitz describes how “the political object, as the original motive of the War, will be the standard for determining both the aim of the military force and also the amount of ...