China has a pivotal decision to make soon. Will it continue to back the continentalist Putin? Or will Xi Jinping take advantage of Russia's sudden...

By Alfred W. McCoy While the world looks on with trepidation at regional wars in Israel and Ukraine, a far more dangerous global crisis is...

The South China Sea, a critical maritime corridor abundant in natural resources vital for global trade, has long been a locus of overlapping...

I am always leery of hubris. It may be true that all people of good now want 'the fall' of Israel, after a century of lies, deceit, killing and more...

By Tria Dianti Jakarta’s feisty response last week to the Chinese coast guard “disrupting” Indonesian survey activities in the North Natuna...

A violent attack on a Vietnamese fishing boat tests Hanoi’s muted but resolute approach to China’s aggression in the South China Sea.

South Korea stands with the Philippines in upholding the rule of law amid “palpable” tensions in the region and the “turbulent” situation in...

By Dr Bryan Sims It is unsurprising that as the world entered its 18th consecutive year of democratic decline, it was also experiencing a record...

Upgraded Triton Island outpost in the Paracel archipelago expands China’s surveillance capabilities in the region

By Paul Eckert China remains officially agnostic about North Korea’s deployment of troops to help Russia’s war in Ukraine – a dispatch that...