Toplines The PLA flew a surveillance drone through Taiwanese airspace over Pratas (Dongsha) Island on January 17, possibly the first confirmed PLA violation of Taiwan’s territorial airspace in decades. The PRC is escalating incursions into Taiwanese-administered airspace and waters to assert its sovereignty, test Taiwan’s response, and erode Taiwan’s threat awareness. Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense (MND) condemned the incursion […]

Toplines North Korea abolished an organization historically responsible for inter-Korean affairs amid organizational restructuring, according to a South Korean Ministry of Unification (MOU) report. The removal may signal a further downgrade of organizations responsible for inter-Korean diplomacy in line with Kim Jong Un’s continued hostile rhetoric toward South Korea. The MOU report indicated that North Korea dissolved the Korea Asia-Pacific […]

Kazakhstan’s entry into the Abraham Accords may be designed to facilitate new critical minerals supply chains, reducing signatories’ dependence on China. On November 6, 2025, President Trump announced that Kazakhstan would join the Abraham Accords. This makes it the first country with preexisting diplomatic ties with Israel to join. The announcement raised eyebrows among Washington analysts, largely because the two […]