The Quiet Crisis Growing in the Shadow of Sudan’s War
For more than two decades, refugee camps in eastern Chad have quietly absorbed the fallout of wars next door. Now they are beginning to crack under a different kind of…
The End of China’s Low Profile Nuclear Strategy
For decades China kept its nuclear force small and quiet. It followed a simple idea, keep just enough weapons to retaliate and avoid getting pulled into the kind of arms…
China, Cambodia Launch “2+2” Strategic Dialogue Mechanism
Chinese FM Wang Yi held talks with Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and FM Prak Sokhonn in Phnom Penh. In the face of a turbulent and changing international landscape and successive…
Dutch are facing biggest security threat in decades, intelligence agency says
The Netherlands is facing the greatest threat to its national security since the end of World War Two, chiefly from Russia and China, against the backdrop of a much more…
Japan lifts ban on lethal weapons exports in major shift of pacifist policy
The cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has lifted a ban on exporting lethal weapons, including fighter jets, in a major shift to Japan’s pacifist post-World War II constitution.…
Xi Jinping, Mohammed bin Salman Discuss Gulf Stability in Strategic Call
On the afternoon of April 20, Chinese President Xi Jinping received a phone call from Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince and Prime Minister of the Kingdom…
China’s foreign minister calls for pushing US, Iran back to negotiations
China’s foreign minister has said the priority is to push the US and Iran back to negotiations, citing the “serious impacts the protracted conflict has had on international energy security…
Russia joins negotiations to unblock Hormuz Strait
Russia has joined the debate about the security of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Alimov told Izvestia. – Also, work on a joint Russian-Chinese…
China vowed no weapon transfers to Iran, claims Hegseth
China has assured the US it will not send weapons to Iran during the ceasefire, claims the US defence secretary.
The Caspian Sea: Iran’s Hidden Lifeline in a Blockaded War
In the shadow of escalating tensions across West Asia, one inland body of water has quietly emerged as an enabler of prolonged conflict: the Caspian Sea. As the United States…