The visa bond pilot program mandates that otherwise eligible applicants for business or tourism visas from select countries, now including Turkmenistan, will have to post a bond of up to $15,000 in or...
On December 24 in Tehran, an unknown assailant killed General Ikramuddin Saree, a former senior police commander of Afghanistan’s republican government and a prominent figure in the National Resistanc...
On December 15, inside a government-linked think tank in Beijing, a conversation took place with implications far beyond diplomacy. When Eddy Soeparno, deputy speaker of the Indonesia’s Consultative A...
Shares of China’s chip-making equipment providers have surged in recent days after media reports said Beijing has instructed semiconductor manufacturers to raise the use of locally made equipment to 5...
As the US races to “island-hop” its airpower back across the Pacific, the real contest is whether US dispersal can stay ahead of China’s surveillance-and-missile kill chain long enou...
TOKYO — As the globe puzzles over US President Donald Trump’s sudden pivot toward regime change and plunder, investors can’t seem to get enough of Asia. This region’s equity bourses are enjoying their...
US President Donald Trump claimed late Tuesday that Venezuela’s interim leadership will turn over to the United States as many as 50 million barrels of sanctioned oil to be sold at market price, part ...
President Trump’s resurrection of the Monroe Doctrine – now rebranded as the “Donroe Doctrine” in an act of geopolitical ego-branding – represents yet another example of Washington’s chronic inability...
Dated November 2025 and released publicly in early December, the US National Security Strategy links overseas trade and investment – but overlooks Central Asia as a target region for critical minerals...
With Russia’s war against Ukraine approaching its fourth anniversary, many lessons can be drawn by South Korea and Japan but arguably the most pertinent one for defense modernization is the pressing n...
Jensen Huang, CEO of the tech behemoth Nvidia and the eighth-richest man in the world, says he is “perfectly fine” with a grassroots push in California to impose a one-time wealth tax on the state’s b...
The sanctioned head of Cambodia’s Prince Group — which the United States has dubbed a “transnational criminal organization” — has been extradited to China, officials said in a statement today. Prince ...
During a recent interview with CNN host Jake Tapper, the White House deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, laid out what appears to be the core of the new ideology driving US foreign policy: the noti...
While the world’s eyes were on Venezuela, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung traveled to Beijing to open a new era of cooperation with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Lee also reiterated South Korea’s...
TOKYO — The year is off to a dreadful start for Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Asia’s No. 2 economy. Though it’s not the first blow, news on Tuesday that China is imposing curbs on m...