Canada supplies almost two-thirds of US crude oil imports and is diversifying toward Asia. Its export routes run through straits the US Navy could close.

Kaga now flies F-35Bs and Izumo is next. Why Japan’s carrier turn is less about the name on the hull than about flexibility, survivability, and the US alliance.

Kaga now flies F-35Bs and Izumo is next. Why Japan’s carrier turn is less about the name on the hull than about flexibility, survivability, and the US alliance.

Bangladesh is strengthening important relationships in several directions at once. In March 2026, Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman met US Energy Secretary Chris Wright in Washington to discuss energy ...

On India’s 80th Independence Day this August, Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled “Saptadhara,” a seven-stream framework meant to carry the country to developed nation status by 2047. Infrastructure ...

ASEAN sent five members to the 2026 BRICS summit in New Delhi. The cost may be the strategic ambiguity that made the bloc ...

Thailand, Brazil and Colombia chose the Gripen over US fighters. The reason is not price or stealth, but who keeps a veto over the software.

Afghanistan’s opium ban cut cultivation by 96%. Its effects on global narcotics markets, and on criminal revenues and profits, are far less certain.

Houthis seize Mocha and Perim, tightening the Bab al-Mandab as Saudi oil reroutes; Canada copies Ukraine's drone playbook; ...

China's envoy warned of consequences for Taiwan at the 2026 Pacific Islands Forum in Palau. How Beijing pressures the PIF, and how the Quad answers.