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Hieromonk Iakov Vorontsov, arrested on drug-related charges after attempting to establish a non-Moscow aligned Orthodox church in Kazakhstan, now faces forced psychological treatment reminiscent of Soviet-era repression.

Unlike Chinese investments in the past, which were state-backed and focused on infrastructure, the B2B model is more commercial and a business-driven partnership.

Author Jon Mitchell’s new book offers some answers.

An Indian Ocean-focused initiative is welcome. But it will need to support a democratic information-sharing culture, if it is to attract participation from all regional countries.

Kazakhstan’s military modernization efforts reflect an adaptive response to growing great power competition.

It’s almost eerie how easily contemporary China discourse parallels U.S. rhetoric about Japan in the 1980s – especially given the huge differences between the two countries.

Rodrigo Duterte faces three counts of crimes against humanity involving the murders of at least ⁠76 people during violent anti-drug crackdowns.

Beijing’s New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor is emerging as a strategic supply line for Beijing – and Singapore helped design it.

The visit, which coincided with the 50th anniversary of relations between the two countries, came as part of a tour that also included stops in China and South Korea.

The former ruling party, once a mainstay of Bangladeshi politics, has largely disappeared from public political life. But its leaders remain defiant.

If legitimacy is tied to history, then exactly how that history is interpreted matters beyond conference rooms packed with historians.

A patriotic film backfired because a growing number of Han Chinese don’t see the Manchu-origin Qing dynasty as a part of their history.

Insights from James R. Holmes.

The scam economy is an industrialized system that merges cyber fraud with human trafficking and money laundering, all thriving under political protection.

Under Pyongyang’s new “two states” policy, sports diplomacy has been repackaged as inter-state, not inter-Korean, exchanges.

OPCON transfer is not an agreement on how to separate. It's a renewed commitment that makes necessary updates to a 70-year-old framework.

With democracies having little appetite to take on any economic risk, China’s support for Russia continues, and so too does the war.

The détente may well have bought the world some time that can be usefully spent strategically. How can African countries respond?

A new levy on digital transfers suspected of hiding unregistered business extends the cash-strapped government’s long habit of taxing whatever it can reach.

Nepal’s hydropower vision depends on India, both as a primary buyer and an exclusive transit route. That gives India immense power over Nepal’s ambitions.

Japan confirmed the first known deployment of a Jiangkai III-class frigate as part of a PLAN carrier strike group, highlighting China’s accelerating blue-water naval integration.

Modi’s Nordic tour could also be interpreted as the opening move in a deliberate strategy to build India’s Arctic credentials. But there’s a big obstacle: Russia.

“I don’t find evidence that [Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan] are yet grappling with the water needs of next-generation industries.”

North Korea intends to press ahead with its own military modernization timeline regardless of the diplomatic calendar.

If Europe wants to reduce security vulnerabilities in its economic relationship with China, it must embed those policies within a strategically positive narrative.