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The country's preference for an open and predicable international order is shared by most of its Asian neighbors.

Lee Jae Myung is the first foreign leader to visit Vietnam since the confirmation of the country's new leadership earlier this month.

Newly inaugurated President Min Aung Hlaing also announced a reduction in the 27-year prison sentence of ousted former leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

So you thought that watching defence spending was complicated. Well, Australia’s new National Defence Strategy displays three different ways of counting it. There’s the Defence portfolio’s appropriation from government; the appropriation from government plus Defence’s ...

The most consequential line in Washington’s new Cyber Strategy isn’t about defence. Released in early March 2026, the document makes clear that the United States intends to use offensive cyber operations as a routine instrument ...

Think of a violin made by a master craftsman: beautiful, precise, capable of extraordinary performance, but impossible to produce quickly or cheaply. It takes time, rare expertise, and materials that cannot be sourced at scale. You would not equip an entire orchestra with instrum…

In Sept. 2025, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia signed a mutual defense pact, formalizing what decades of quiet cooperation had already made real. The defense pact signed in Riyadh was presented in official communiqués as a natural deepening of bilateral ties. It was that, but it w…

Pro-Russian Rumen Radev and his new political party have won a majority in Bulgaria’s parliamentary election. As prime minister, he will probably sound like Viktor Orban when it comes to foreign policy but act more like Robert Fico

Europe and Japan seek deeper defence-industrial cooperation; but the fragmented EU system is creating challenges. As a first step, Tokyo should establish stronger bilateral partnerships, particularly with Germany and Poland

The Iran war threatens the sense of security, prosperity, and opportunity that the Gulf states have spent years cultivating as they seek to diversify their economies away from oil. The post ‘They have been exposed’: The Iran war upends Gulf states’ security and business model app…

While the upcoming summit is unlikely to produce anything as singularly significant as 2025’s “5 percent” pledge, there are important steps the Alliance should take. The post Five ideas to make the upcoming NATO Summit in Ankara a success appeared first on Atlantic Council .

Insights from on the ground in Colombia, where the United States and China's competition for influence is playing out in the tech sector, among other places. The post A US tech agenda focused on Latin America to outcompete the People’s Republic of China appeared first on At…

Pressing economic concerns should compel the United States and Iran to decouple their blockades of the Strait of Hormuz from the complex and likely lengthy negotiations needed to reach a settlement on Iran’s nuclear program.

Welcome to the Daily News Brief, CFR’s flagship morning newsletter summarizing the top global news and analysis of the day. Top of the Agenda Iran threatened to retaliate today after the U.S. seized an Iranian cargo ship yesterday, raising new uncertainty over whether peace talks…

Introduction Since the financial crisis of 2007, central banks around the world have entered into a multitude of bilateral currency swap agreements with one another. These agreements allow a central bank in one country to exchange currency, usually its domestic currency, for a ce…

Iraq in the Vice glenssen Mon, 04/20/2026 - 16:59 Latest Updates Africa Asia-Pacific Europe Latin America & Caribbean Middle East & North Africa United States Global Issues & Institutions My Reading List A drone view shows damage at a compound housing offices and ware…

The challenges of conducting open-source research in China are well-documented. Consistently named one of the most digitally oppressive countries in the world, China blocks some of the world’s largest social media platforms, such as Facebook, Google, and YouTube. Those that are s…

Uganda's military has said that it and forces from the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo freed some 200 hostages in eastern DRC in a joint operation against Islamist militants known as the ADF.

Sudan’s war has displaced millions, leaving parts of the country facing famine. Aid agencies warn children are bearing the brunt as food shortages worsen and humanitarian funding declines.

Preliminary results show that former President Rumen Radev has won Bulgaria's general election with a clear majority and the biggest result for a single party since 1997. Will Bulgaria finally get a stable government?

US curbs on advanced chips pushed China to focus on its own semiconductor ecosystem. And while it trails at the very cutting edge, China's "good‑enough" technology is fast powering much of the global economy.

Rumen Radev's new center-left party, Progressive Bulgaria has won an absolute majority in the country's eighth general election in five years. Both Russia and the EU have already sent their congratulations.

Trump has said that the US is in "armed conflict" with cartels, as its military campaign has killed at least 180 people since last year amid criticism over its legality.

After the US ousted Maduro and effectively seized control of Venezuela's oil industry, the country's economy has been transitioning rapidly. The interim government is wooing investors but lacks democratic backing.

After the Nazis seized power in 1933, many Germans escaped by fleeing abroad. Some ended up in what was then Yugoslavia. German historian Marie Janine Calic tells their story.