For North Korea, the stars of history are aligning with those of geopolitics. North Korea has a vast arms industry whose products are almost entirely modelled on Soviet ones that the Russian army ...

Indonesia has rapidly become the world’s largest supplier of nickel after adopting a surprisingly successful mix of industrial and trade policies to expand processing capacity and battery ...

This latest deal with New Zealand adds to the Philippines’ wide network of security partners. It is the fourth such deal by the Philippines to allow foreign troops to operate in the country, adding to ...

Kim’s motive for finally admitting this open secret has to do with domestic implications for North Korea itself from the fighting in Ukraine. North Korea’s military presence over the years in Egypt, ...

In the PLA context, clientelist and professional relations can be seen in linkages between Xi and members of the so-called “Shaanxi Gang”, including Xi’s connections as a “princeling” to CMC Vice ...

The concerted pushback against Musk and Tesla in America itself, as well as places such as Germany and Canada, which have been the victims of Trump’s erratic policies, has caused a plunge in car sales ...

But chaos and mismanagement are just the least of the sins committed by Myanmar’s military over the last few days. Unusually early to call for international assistance, the junta seems to have seen an ...

Like the 1985 Plaza Accord, part of the proposed solution is to force the rest of the world to appreciate their currencies to improve US export competitiveness. You can already see the effort here to ...

This methodology shows exports to the rest of the world have indeed likely absorbed a great deal of Vietnam’s additional imports from China. But it also confirms a big increase in Chinese content ...

China is widely assumed to be the biggest beneficiary, although the full extent of the impact remains unquantified. A back-of-the-envelope calculation, however, offers some insight into the upheaval ...

Formally, the law protects only the king, the queen, the heir apparent and regent from defamation or insults. However, courts have also punished people for comments about other royal family members, ...