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Trump’s Unmistakable Warning Through Maduro’s Capture: Don’t Play Games

The capture of Nicolás Maduro marks the pinnacle of U.S. President Donald Trump’s strategic power calculations and a manifestation of Washington’s unwavering intent to keep Russia and China at bay and reassert American dominance and primacy in the Western Hemisphere
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Malaysia’s Judiciary Boosts Reputation On Najib Verdict

Amid the relative detritus of Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s struggling government, one bright thing stands out, and that’s the performance of the country’s judiciary, which seems to have found its bearings after the years of political destruction by former premier Mahathir Mohamed and others
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Golden Dome Faces Challenges Of Size, Scope And Scale From Every Angle

The announcement of the Golden Dome missile defense system to protect the United States from missile attacks represented a major shift in defense priorities for the US military — and presents myriad challenges when trying to protect a country the size of the US
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The US–Malaysia Partnership: Why It Matters for Our Shared Future

Malaysia will get long term tangible and intangible benefits not only from the Agreement on Reciprocal Trade (ART), but most importantly on the multi-faceted positive safeguard of our economic, security, technological and geopolitical strength and needs through enhanced ties with the US
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Trump’s Deterrent Factor and ASEAN’s Limited Hand in Thailand-Cambodia Discord

The Thailand-Cambodia conflict transcends the current ASEAN mechanism and capacity alone to deter or manage, seeing how its historical, contextual and nationalistic multi-factorial setting has shaped the spectrum of the conflict that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) alone is not able to fully resolve
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As India Remains In Coal’s Grip, China May Escape

The government in New Delhi can’t get out of its own way. On the one hand, it has made strides to ramp up renewable energy investment and development to help rein in its greenhouse gas emissions
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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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