April 16, 2026 – Asia’s rise should not be interpreted as a race between rivals, but as a shared project. Redefining the boundaries of risk In recent years, India has progressively established itself as one of the main alternatives to China in global value chains. This process is taking place within an international context marked by profound transformations: growing geopolitical […]

Même si les mesures iraniennes ne détruisent pas le pétrodollar, elles portent un sérieux coup à Washington pour son refus de conclure un accord & mettre fin au conflit qui dure depuis près de 50 ans. La guerre illégale que mènent les États-Unis et Israël contre l’Iran expose le complexe “pétrole-dollar-Wall Street” qui lie pétrole, marchés financiers et domination du […]

Military rule is now a defining political factor in South Asia. Here’s how analysts can understand and account for it. From Democratic Backsliding to Military PowerOver the past two decades, scholars and analysts have devoted much of their attention to democratic backsliding, illiberal democracy, and competitive authoritarianism—all processes through which elected leaders can threaten democracy by undermining democratic institutions and […]

The controversial talks are likely to be held in a neutral venue, such as a hotel in the Belgian capital, rather than on EU premises A Taliban delegation is expected in Brussels before the summer for highly sensitive talks with EU and national officials on the deportation of Afghans, officials familiar with the discussions told Euractiv. The meeting, which is […]

Nooruddin Azizi, Minister of Industry and Commerce of the Islamic Emirate, has held talks with Andrei Yevgenyevich Kuznetsov, Belarus’s Minister of Industry, on increasing the level of trade between the two countries and purchasing diesel fuel and petrol from Belarus. Azizi raised this issue during his visit to Uzbekistan in a meeting with the Belarusian Minister of Industry. According to […]

L’équilibre entre les relations avec l’Arabie saoudite et l’Iran demeure un élément clé de la politique étrangère du Pakistan, le pays cherchant à la fois à renforcer ses partenariats stratégiques et à préserver son rôle de médiateur dans le contexte géopolitique tendu du Moyen-Orient. La position de l’Arabie saoudite et de l’IranLe Pakistan entretient des relations étroites avec l’Arabie saoudite […]

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 […]