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Silence as Policy: The Security Council’s Failing in Myanmar
After the sudden military coup in 2021 dismantled and overthrew Myanmar’s new democratic government, the country has been controlled by a military junta led...
Why Keeping Silence on Taiwan Is No Longer Safe
Strategic ambiguity, the US policy of neither explicitly supporting nor opposing Taiwanese independence, has been considered effective for decades in maintaining stability in the...
Artificial Intelligence in the Interregnum: Technology and the Reconfiguration of Meaning
There are moments in history when civilizations continue to advance materially while progressively losing confidence in the values and structures that once gave direction...
Why China Matters in Trump’s Iran and Pakistan Negotiations
China is playing the role of diplomatic mediator through Pakistan to reduce American influence and promote a multipolar world order led by China and...
ASEAN Built a Rules-Based Strategy. Trump May Prefer Deals
ASEAN leaders were trying to consolidate a vastly different vision for a regional order just days before Donald Trump arrived in Beijing for a...
Xi Jinping’s Temple of Heaven Message to Trump: Chinese Modernization, Harmony, and the Global South
Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed the need to accelerate the construction of a Chinese intellectual system in the fields of philosophy and social...
Are Japan and Southeast Asia Building a Third Option?
Over the past month, Japan formally joined the United States–Philippines Balikatan military exercises. Under the Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA) previously signed between Tokyo and...
Diplomacy After the Fact Is Too Late
At an energy summit in Athens on 14 May, Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis offered a phrase Greek diplomacy has rarely used about itself: "We...
Israel: The Great Exception in Trump’s Foreign Policy
In recent years, U.S. foreign policy has undergone a fundamental shift. With Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the “America First” doctrine is...
Hormuz Cannot Become a Toll Gate
Iran’s announcement of a surveillance and permit zone stretching from Qeshm toward Fujairah is not merely another Gulf security measure. It is an attempt...