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Hosting US-Iran talks, Pakistan angles to become the new Oslo
Middle East

Hosting US-Iran talks, Pakistan angles to become the new Oslo

Pakistani officials are hoping the high-profile negotiations will raise their international standing

apan Ground Self-Defense Force long-range missile launcher
Asia-Pacific

Japan's new long-range missiles put US-China on collision course

Ahead of the Trump-Xi summit, Tokyo is making moves that could stoke tensions between the two powers

Donald Trump
Middle East

For peace with Iran to work a reckoning with Israel is in order

Trump must get back to basics, and his promises to the American people. In order to do that he must put this relationship in its proper place.

China electric cars
Asia-Pacific

On energy, China can sit this crisis out. Here's why.

'Green energy' here isn't a slogan or abstract aspiration. It's economic and geopolitical survival.

The road to Beijing doesn't run through Tehran
Global Crises

The road to Beijing doesn't run through Tehran

However the Iran war unfolds, it will prove to be a strategic self-own in our great-power competition with China

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi at White House Trump
Asia-Pacific

If surviving Trump meeting was goal, Takaichi leaves DC a winner

The Japanese prime minister didn't get what she wanted regarding Chinese security assurances, but nor was she talked into joining Iran war