Multilateral architecture rarely collapses with a dramatic bang; it hollows out often imperceptibly, victim to the growing weight of contradictions between real material conditions and outmoded ...

The two countries need to establish their Zeus’s Law, preventing strategic rivalry from escalating without limit and avoiding ...

When Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump meet in Washington this month, AI will be near the top of the ...

The American president’s approach has been characterized by improvisation, contradictory messaging, lack of coherent strategic planning and no clear exit strategy. This has imposed significant ...

All politics,” as the familiar English saying goes, “is local.” For Chinese political elites, however, locality carries two ...

China and the United States are both confronting rising climate risks, but China is embedding adaptation into long-term ...

Over the past year, the war between Russia and Ukraine has evolved, extending into economic and social spheres and prompting a shift in the brokering of peace. This, in turn, has allowed strategic ...

Moonshot AI’s Kimi is emerging as a Chinese competitor to Anthropic’s Claude, with increasingly comparable capabilities but ...

Revising Japan’s three non-nuclear principles would require far more than a simple adjustment to national security policy. It would concern Japan’s ultimate choice of national identity and could ...

The upcoming BRICS summit offers India an opportunity to expand its diplomatic space in the Global South. With mounting geopolitical conflicts and disorder in global governance, the summit will allow ...

Climate action could provide common ground for BRICS as the grouping struggles to bridge geopolitical differences among its increasingly diverse membership. Greater cooperation through climate ...

China-ASEAN relations are shaped by deep economic integration but also by territorial disputes, competitive pressures and persistent public unease toward Beijin ...