President Joe Biden on his first foreign foray sought to cast Russia not as a direct competitor to the United States but as a bit player in a world where Washington is increasingly pre-occup... Read more
Nuclear Weapons: Who Has What at a Glance
At the dawn of the nuclear age, the United States hoped to maintain a monopoly on its new weapon, but the secrets and the technology for building the atomic bomb soon spread. The United Stat... Read more
‘Chin State CM Salai Lian Luai Takes Shelter in Mizoram’
Chief Minister of Myanmar’s Chin state, Salai Lian Luai has taken shelter in Mizoram from the military coup hit the neighbouring country while 9,250 Myanmarese, including women and chi... Read more
Trust Deficit Remains a Year After Galwan Clash
India and China have been locked in a standoff in the Ladakh sector for over a year, and are currently negotiating a withdrawal of troops and weapons from friction points on the disputed bor... Read more
Asia’s Stakes in the Biden-Putin Summit
If Beijing is likely to watch next week’s summit meeting in Geneva between U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin with a bit of concern, New Delhi is cheering the two... Read more
NATO Chief Warns of ‘New Dangers’ From Russia-China Ties
Growing political and military cooperation between Russia and China poses “new dangers” for NATO and threatens multilateralism, the head of the military alliance said in an interview publish... Read more
China Says US Senators Visiting Taiwan on Military Plane a ‘Vile Provocation’
China’s Defence Ministry on Tuesday (Jun 8) denounced a brief weekend visit by three US senators to Chinese-claimed Taiwan on a US military aircraft as a “vile political provocat... Read more
Thousands of pages of emails exchanged by US infectious diseases czar Anthony Fauci have fanned the flames of the lab leak origin theory of the novel coronavirus. Now out in the public domai... Read more
UN: Unprecedented Taliban Violence in 2020 Carries Into 2021
Taliban insurgents show no sign of reducing the level of violence in Afghanistan to facilitate peace negotiations with the government, and appear to be trying to strengthen their military po... Read more
The Risks of Washington’s Favorite Counterterrorism Tool Often Outweigh the Rewards
The United States’ use of airstrikes carried out by drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles, to kill suspected terrorists abroad began during the George W. Bush administration but picked up spee... Read more