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How China’s Military Diplomacy Uses Foreign Officer Education to Expand Its Global Role
China pursues a “military diplomacy” strategy as part of its vision to enhance its global security role, based on the “Global Security Initiative” launched...
Empowering Middle Powers: China’s Economic Strategy in Canada
In mid-January 2026, China and Canada signed a “Roadmap for Economic and Trade Cooperation,” the first high-level cooperation document in the history of their...
Invisible Backbone of Global Trade: Why Seaborne Labour Deserves Strategic Attention
Authors: Amina Munir and Amna Hashmi
When policymakers discuss the issue of maritime security, the concept of supply-chain resilience, or the future of global trade,...
Rearming Japan in the Shadow of the 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy
The US National Security Strategy (NSS) 2025 reflects Donald Trump's vision of “America First” asserting that the US will relocate its focus on securing...
The Acheson Line Revisited: How Strategic Silence Could Invite Miscalculation on the Korean Peninsula
In January 1950, US Secretary of State Dean Acheson suggested the US’ defense perimeters in the Pacific, conspicuously leaving South Korea outside it. Apart...
Prabowo Among the Tough Guys of the Board of Peace
A thousand friends are still too few, one enemy is too many.
This is the diplomatic rhetoric often used by Prabowo Subianto for international geopolitical...
BRICS Payment Settlement: The Quest and Implications
Amid escalating tariff threats, economic sanctions, disorderly payment settlements, currency and liquidity stress, and compliance-driven de-risking in an intensifying geopolitical churn, the RBI’s call...
China Isn’t Winning. America Is Just Losing
A year into Donald Trump's second presidency, a familiar narrative is gaining traction: U.S. allies and trading partners are pivoting toward China as America...
China rejects U.S. pressure on Bolivia over Iran-linked groups, as Latin American influence shifts
China's position on US pressure on Bolivia regarding Iran, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and US pressure on the Bolivian president to designate...
The New Orientalist Order: Trump, Kushner, and the Art of Ungoverned Power
The Promise of a Post-Imperial Age
It is comforting to believe that Orientalism belongs to another century. When Edward Said coined the term, he was...