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Between Hawks and Doves: A Precarious Tightrope of Kabul and Islamabad
The popular expression ‘pass the buck’ was first used in American poker games, where a player, to avert the burden of dealing, would pass...
A Crown for One, a Go Board for the Other: S. Korea’s Tailored Gifts to Trump and Xi
South Korea's new president, Lee Jae Myung, presented Chinese leader Xi Jinping with a finely crafted wooden Go board during a state visit. This...
Hegseth Urges US to Share Tools with Allies to Deter China
Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth criticized China for its increasing "destabilising actions" in the South China Sea during his visit to Kuala Lumpur. He emphasized...
China’s Hangor submarine delivery to Pakistan: assessing naval-power balance shift
Submarine induction:
Pakistan's naval power was claimed to be bolstered in mid-August 2025 when China gave Pakistan its third Hangor-class submarine. With their sophisticated sensors...
Senior EU politician calls for end to bitter conflict causing “immense suffering”
With wars still raging in Ukraine and the Middle East, the two-year-old conflict in Sudan has struggled at times to make the international news...
Xi Steps Into the Spotlight as Trump Skips APEC Summit
As U.S. President Donald Trump’s Air Force One departed South Korea, Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in...
Morocco’s Economic Rise—and Its Stubborn Contradictions
Morocco’s recent wave of youth-led protests over unemployment and inequality has laid bare the contradictions behind the Kingdom’s modernization success. It has built world-class...
Why Nuclear Testing Stopped and What Trump’s Order to Resume Could Mean
In a stunning decision, U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered the immediate resumption of nuclear weapons testing after a gap of 33 years an...
From Margins to Missions: How the Elsie Initiative Fund Is Redefining Peacekeeping
In the world of international peacekeeping, a quiet revolution is underway—one that moves beyond counting women to fundamentally transforming how security institutions operate. At...
The Normalization Trap: A Former Minister’s Warning on Taliban Diplomacy
For decades, Afghanistan has been dubbed the "graveyard of empires," but a more enduring and painful truth is its role as a chessboard for...