2+ hour, 25+ min ago  (1265+ words) Myanmar's war is often described as a clash of ideologies, ethnic identities and competing visions of the state. That is true, but incomplete. At its core, Myanmar's crisis is also a resource-driven conflict, intensified by geography. The generals did not…...

2+ hour, 41+ min ago  (934+ words) The Trump-Xi summit in Beijing was supposed to signal a new phase of calmer US-China relations. Instead, it exposed a deeper reality that should concern Indonesia and much of Southeast Asia, as stability between great powers can sometimes come at…...

3+ hour, 5+ min ago  (1012+ words) There is a moment in every great geopolitical confrontation when the outcome becomes structurally inevitable " long before anyone is willing to announce it. Rome understood this when Germanic tribes stopped retreating. Britain understood it in 1947, standing in Delhi with empty…...

6+ hour, 29+ min ago  (1270+ words) Empires rise and fall. They do not last forever. Imperial declines follow a gradual shifting of the economic tides, but are also punctuated and defined by critical tipping points. There are many differences between the'Suez Crisis'in 1956 and the US war…...

6+ hour, 46+ min ago  (1045+ words) The most revealing line of last week's Trump-Xi summit was not delivered at the Great Hall of the People. It came afterward, aboard Air Force One, when the American president was asked by Fox News what he thought of the…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (1192+ words) President Donald Trump departed China on May 15, 2026, after a two-day summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping that was scrutinized from every angle for clues on where the relationship is heading. Trump hailed the trip as "incredible," while Xi remarked that…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (1239+ words) The first time one truly stands before a Ming-style horseshoe-back armchair, a quiet misperception arises. It does not feel like an antique. It feels like a piece of modern design completed several centuries too early. The value of Chinese classical…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (820+ words) When Britain sent its first formal diplomatic mission to China in 1793, one of the participants from London, Peter Auber, remarked that the group had been "received with the utmost politeness, treated with the utmost hospitality, watched with the utmost vigilance…...

9+ mon, 4+ week ago  (433+ words) JAKARTA - On July 15, Indonesia and the United States reached a compromise: the threatened 32% tariff on Indonesian exports will now be capped at 19% in...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1092+ words) Earlier this month, Indonesia and Japan signed a defense cooperation agreement that could eventually allow Jakarta to acquire lethal weaponry from Tokyo. The move was the latest in a series of strategic engagements signaling that Indonesia is beginning to lean…...