Since the beginning of the new era, China’s policy of fostering amity, sincerity, mutual benefit, and inclusiveness in neighborhood diplomacy has significantly advanced its relations with neighboring countries. China has reached a
While attention remains fixed on conflicts in West Asia and their aftermath, one development with potentially far-reaching consequences for the future of international politics has attracted surprisingly little attention: China’s June 17,
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Sri Lanka Navy Marines contingent, consisting of 13 Marine officers and 30 Marines, will participate in the world’s largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC 2026, in Hawaii and the Pacific region. The exercise,
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Two decades ago, I was in South Africa with the Malawian economist Thandika Mkandawire (1940–2020). We were talking about his generation of scholars, who came of age during the national liberation movements.
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On June 15, 2026, Pakistan unveils it’s first-ever freedom report assessing Political, civil, economic, digital, legal and social freedoms. The report was developed by Mishal Pakistan, the country partner of the World
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The United Nations was never supposed to work like this. For eight decades, the process of selecting its most powerful official, the closest thing the world has to a global leader, has
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The Russian Embassy in Sri Lanka has accused the European Union Delegation in Sri Lanka of displaying what it called “Spanish shame” after the EU mission issued a statement on Russia’s demographic
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Germany is preparing for the possibility of ordering soldiers to join its permanent military deployment in Lithuania as it struggles to secure enough volunteers for the mission aimed at strengthening NATO’s eastern
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Keiko Fujimori has secured victory in Peru’s presidential election after the vote count reached a point where her lead can no longer be overturned. With 99.8% of ballots counted, Fujimori holds 50.1%
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A quick check of TikTok can easily become a much longer session than expected. A cooking video leads to a travel clip, then a technology review, an interview, or a political analysis.
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The arrival of Taliban representatives in Brussels this week unfolded against a strikingly different event taking place hundreds of kilometers away in Paris. While European officials met with envoys of Afghanistan’s ruling
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