Analysis

When the World Tilts, So Do Its Waterways

You can tell the world is heating up—not just by the record-shattering temperatures in Phoenix or the floodwaters swallowing neighborhoods in Jakarta—but by the receding water levels in the Panama Canal
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US-EU Relations Continue To Fray Over Ukraine Question

Disagreements over the "Ukrainian case" have brought the US and European Union (EU) to the lowest point at which their relations have ever been since the creation of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the proclamation of the principles of trans-Atlantic solidarity in the mid-20th century
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Pure Orwell: Europe Condemns Iran For Attacks On Its Own Territory

When Israeli warplanes struck Iran this week — violating Iranian sovereignty in a brazen act of aggression, killing scores of civilians alongside top military commanders and nuclear scientists and inviting Iran’s equally indiscriminate retaliatory strikes — Europe’s leaders didn’t condemn the attack
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Beijing's ASEAN Hedge Against Washington

The ASEAN-GCC-China platform remains a strategic effort in increasing economic friendshoring that can boost the potential and relevance of the ASEAN market
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Beijing Seeks To Reshape South Asian Security

Among the many outcomes of the short but intense India-Pakistan war is China’s proactive efforts to use it to consolidate a regional bloc in South Asia involving Pakistan, Afghanistan, and China itself in anticipation of New Delhi’s moves to get closer to the US
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Malacca: The Strait That Could Strangle China’s Future

If you want to understand one of China’s deepest strategic nightmares, look no further than a thin, congested strip of water between Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia called the Strait of Malacca
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How Modi’s India Is Rewriting New Warfare Norms

The India-Pakistan conflict almost caused the brink of nuclear brinkmanship, until President Trump again used his peace-loving agenda and his dovish art of the deal strategic mantra
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Oppose European Rearmament!

European countries are collectively plunging hundreds of billions of euros into a mad frenzy of military spending
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Reformasi Or Reformati? The Collapse Of Meritocracy In PKR

It doesn’t take a doctoral thesis on the sociology of cronyism and nepotism to recognise that Nurul Izzah’s recent victory as Deputy President of PKR was heavily influenced by her status as the daughter of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, the party’s President
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