China is strengthening Hong Kong as a global gold trading hub to expand its role in gold markets, reinforce Hong Kong’s financial position, and gradually increase renminbi usage in commodity ...

Sweeping crackdowns on online gambling and fraud activities in mainland Southeast Asia highlight the importance of regional cooperation platforms such as the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC). LMC’s ...

The chaotic conditions created by the U.S./Israeli war against Iran are now in an escalatory phase. The reverberations will be severe worldwide.

Donald Trump has not destroyed a legitimate rules-based international order; rather, his actions have exposed the long-standing hypocrisy of a system in which the United States and its allies have ...

The security foundation on which the GCC’s economic model was built has been seriously undermined. Unless these nations can forge a new, credible framework, it will be difficult to sustain the foreign ...

Growing instability in the global order and rising uncertainty in relations with major powers are driving countries such as ...

The U.S.-Israel strike on Iran lacks a clear legal basis or credible justification and represents a high-risk gamble by the ...

The death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in U.S.-Israeli strikes has created leadership uncertainty in ...

Initial American success against Iran has settled into protracted unpredictability. Things are not going exactly as planned for the United States, and significant unforeseen costs of war may emerge.

Even as the United States attempts to nudge its allies toward taking a tougher line on China, Washington is increasingly seen as an unreliable partner. Its pressure no longer brings automatic ...

Whether assessing the prospects of the war in Ukraine or predicting the trajectory of relations between the United States and Russia, U.S. policy discussions have generally revealed a cautious, ...

While the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Trump administration’s IEEPA tariffs, Washington has continued to pursue unilateral tariff policies through other legal mechanisms, creating ongoing ...