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geopolitical · geopolitical
Carlos Frederico Pereira da Silva Gama and host Tushar Shetty discuss the priorities and divergences of India’s BRICS presidency ahead of the September leaders’ summit.
geopolitical · geopolitical
The conflict did not derail the transition but exposed how vulnerable it remains to external disruption – and how quickly governments can fall back on fossil fuels.
geopolitical · geopolitical
While the companies haven’t been named, what’s clear is that Bishkek wants to be seen making an effort to address the EU’s sanctions circumvention concerns.
social demographic · sports
Hyper-nationalistic rhetoric is complicating the resolution of the ongoing border dispute, but ending it is not an easy task.
geopolitical · geopolitical
The Treasury Department has designated nine people and 26 entities linked to Prince Holding Group, which it has described as a "transnational criminal organization."
geopolitical · geopolitical
Abrogation of the ceasefires in Manipur may not be an option for the government as it could spark greater violence.
geopolitical · geopolitical
Russia's assurance that it will maintain a long-term supply of oil and gas to Malaysia looks like a veiled effort to keep Putin's government stocked with U.S. dollars.
geopolitical · geopolitical
Some equipment central for the Global War on Terror could play important roles in a potential conflict against China.
geopolitical · geopolitical
The current ubiquity of corruption underscores the normalization of impunity in the country's politics, despite recent democratic uprisings.
social demographic · sports
Far from shoring up support for the Thai monarchy, the deployment of pseudo-academics and influencers is damaging the royalist cause.
military · geopolitical
Su Mon Thant from ACLED talks about the military's mounting atrocities, and the Arakan Army's recent abuses against the Rohingya.
social demographic · sports
The U.S. may be losing a one-on-one contest with China for influence. But when you add its allies into the mix, the U.S. bloc is still leading the way.
social demographic · culture
South Korea’s second largest city will chart the country’s new maritime plan. And its new mayor will lead the way.
social demographic · education
An ambitious university-led research project to document the Dong people’s distinctive architecture is revealing a great deal about this marginalized Indigenous group’s way of life.
geopolitical · geopolitical
China’s top priority is now keeping the Gulf states, and above all Saudi Arabia and the UAE, from drawing closer to Washington.
economic · economic
U.S. trade pressure could prove to be exactly the catalyst ASEAN needs for integration
natural disaster · natural disaster
Chadchart Sittipunt, an independent, has replicated the landslide victory that delivered him to the governor's office in 2022.
geopolitical · geopolitical
There are no official statistics on acid attacks on women in Pakistan. But an estimated 200 cases are reported each year.
social demographic · culture
While negotiations for the licensed manufacture of F414 jet engines in India continue, the off-the-shelf procurement cost of some F414 engines for the AMCA prototype has tripled.
geopolitical · geopolitical
Will Central Asia’s fix for its energy crisis merely trigger another?
geopolitical · geopolitical
The award did not settle maritime disputes in the region. But it did fundamentally clarify the interpretation of maritime entitlements under UNCLOS – and forced countries to clarify their claims in turn.
social demographic · sports
“Economic statecraft is not as simple or easy as Chinese decisionmakers think or as U.S. policymakers and external observers might fear,” argues Audrye Wong, author of a new book on the topic.
geopolitical · geopolitical
Chinese workers have reportedly resumed construction on a critical highway along the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border where two such workers were killed in November 2025.
geopolitical · geopolitical
Scientists warn of a regional disaster If pollution from rare earth and gold mining in Myanmar continues to spread toxins further along the Mekong River.
social demographic · sports
The Nakamal Agreement between Australia and Vanuatu may be weaker than Canberra’s other regional pacts, but it remains significant in checking China’s influence.
geopolitical · geopolitical
China’s attack on Taiwan has already started – with the Ethnic Unity Law as a weapon.
social demographic · sports
A football tournament is China’s latest propaganda campaign to whitewash its abuses of Uyghur people – and deconstruct Uyghur identity in favor of Chinese “unity.”
social demographic · culture
The annual bung bang fai festival calls on the god Phaya Thaen to bring rain at the start of the agricultural season.
geopolitical · geopolitical
Japan has earned rising acclaim from U.S. observers as a middle power that complements, rather than threatens, the United States. Yet Japan is not deepening its ties with Washington out of charity.
geopolitical
Ukraine has reshaped the battlefield with cheap, expendable drones. South Korea reads the signals and wants to match the scale. North Korea has been reading the same signals through a more direct channel. Since late 2024, North Korea has rotated thousands of troops through Russia’s war in Ukraine, alongside what is currently the world’s most combat tested drone force — tied with Ukraine’s, of course. Ukrainian defense intelligence reports that some of those troops have begun returning home and moving into instructor roles within the North Korean military.What exactly they are bringing back is harder to pin down from the The post South Korea’s 500,000 Drone Warriors Will Be a Hollow Force appeared first on War on the Rocks .