There are wars that begin with missiles and those that begin with memos. Donald Trump’s latest economic offensive belongs firmly to the second category. A 500% tariff threat on India—embedded in the s...
Imagine if what happened in Venezuela had happened to the United States. In the scenario, Washington has a longtime, totally compliant lap dog of a president in some Asian country, and there are Ameri...
“India’s journey today is not merely about development; it is also a journey of psychological renaissance.” — Narendra Modi “Realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the greates...
TOKYO — Investors betting against a MAGA-fied Federal Reserve are rapidly getting used to disappointment. On Friday (January 9), as Fed Chair Jerome Powell has since detailed in a video message, US Pr...
The Maduro regime was always likely to end abruptly. Reports that US forces encountered little resistance—and that Venezuela’s president had come to rely on Cuban security rather than his own military...
Beijing is reportedly set to give the green light for Chinese technology firms to import Nvidia’s H200 artificial intelligence (AI) chips, even as an industry heavyweight warns companies not to become...
The Cuban capital of Havana, where we are currently on a research trip, woke to an unfamiliar silence on January 5. As we drove through the city, no music drifted from open windows and shops and resta...
China’s renewed construction at a little-known reef in the South China Sea is sharpening a deeper debate over whether US military power can still decisively roll back China’s expanding mar...
Iranians have shown a willingness to pay a devastating price for political change, as protest has consistently been met by the Islamic Republic with violence and mass killing. The death toll since Ira...
For nearly four centuries, the global order has rested on the foundation of Westphalian sovereignty: the idea that a state has exclusive authority over its territory and that a head of state is shield...
The 20th anniversary of the China Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia (CCCI), celebrated in Jakarta on January 9, was framed as a moment of confidence and continuity. Indonesian and Chinese officials spo...
In December 2025, South Korean and Russian diplomats held a closed-door session in Moscow to address concerns over North Korea’s expanding nuclear arsenal. The talks involved South Korea’s foreign min...
For many Asian electronics component suppliers, India is no longer unfamiliar territory. Sales teams visit regularly. Distributors are appointed. Memorandums are signed. Yet a familiar frustration per...
In late November 2025, debt-related products distributed through the Zhejiang Financial Assets Exchange Center entered default. More than 15,000 onshore investors were affected, impacting approximatel...
India’s launch of the e-B-4 “Production Investment Business Visa” for Chinese nationals, effective January 1, allows stays of up to six months, with processing times of around 50 days. The visa’s timi...
