A small airport has been operating outside of the purview of the Indonesian state since 2019, raising thorny questions about ...

Russia’s 9M730 Burevestnik is being touted as a technological breakthrough, but the technical details don’t add up.

This week we cover missile deployments near Taiwan, a brewing water crisis in Europe along with a far more advanced one in ...

Copper now sits at the center of a fast-tightening web of electrification, digital infrastructure, and geopolitical tension.

Opportunities for ASEAN countries to capture semiconductor back-end, EV battery manufacturing, and higher-value electronics ...

The Islamic Republic has proved, over four and a half decades, that it can survive war, sanctions, isolation, and cycles of ...

Vietnam may be the latest Southeast Asian country forced into a harsh reckoning, but it will not be the last. From Bangkok’s ...

Russia’s mass deployment of incarcerated prisoners to the frontlines of Ukraine makes for good economics if not ethics. But ...

This week we cover the corruption scandal in Ukraine which triggered the latest round of ongoing peace efforts, new suspected ...

A bizarre factor in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is that most Western experts on the Russian military agreed with the Kremlin that Russia had a powerful army which would defeat Ukraine within two or ...

The ascent of China’s economic influence in Africa is undeniable, with China surpassing the United States as the continent’s largest trade partner in 2009 and more recently quadrupling the US-Africa ...

Both the SAF and RSF may accept a short-term truce owing to international pressure or tactical regrouping, but neither will ...