The Iran War revealed what years of pipeline deals and LNG contracts quietly built: a Chinese stranglehold on Asia’s gas supply. When Reuters reported that Chinese companies had resold a record 19 LNG cargoes in the first quarter of 2026 alone—10 to South Korea, five to Thailand, and the rest split among Japan, India, and the Philippines—the story was framed […]

At the world’s most critical oil chokepoint, tension rises as tankers wait and uncertainty spreads (AI Generated Image) The standoff over the Strait of Hormuz escalated again on Saturday as Iran reversed its reopening of the crucial waterway and fired on ships attempting to pass, in retaliation after the United States pressed ahead with its blockade of Iranian ports. New […]

Toplines Taiwan’s opposition Kuomintang (KMT) Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun reiterated standard PRC rhetoric during her April 10 meeting with CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping. The PRC is setting conditions for continued cooperation with the KMT. The PRC’s readout for the Cheng-Xi meeting emphasized cross-strait integration, criticized “Taiwan independence” activists, and stated that the KMT and CCP would continue working together to […]

It lacks any importance outside of its immediate region, thus making interest in its affairs and what it has to say about developments elsewhere in the world niche, so it would be better for Pakistan to focus on targeted soft power efforts than invest enormous sums of money in English-language media. The New York Times published a report in late […]