Reports that U.S. officials are increasingly concerned about Israeli intelligence activity inside the United States should not be dismissed as a minor diplomatic embarrassment. If accurate, they point to a deeper strategic problem: Israel’s security doctrine is now pressing so aggressively outward that it is beginning to step on the toes of nearly everyone around […]

On 18–19 May 2026, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid the first official visit to Norway by an Indian prime minister in 43 years — one of the most substantive stops of his broader May 2026 European tour. The trip culminated in the 3rd India-Nordic Summit in Oslo and the formal elevation of bilateral ties […]

The ongoing war in the Middle East is having wide ranging implications as far as the changing nature of the existing world order is concerned. It no longer will remain the same. In the realm of international relations, certain events have contributed to seismic shifts in the nature of the world order. The two World […]

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The Philippines is more of an object than a subject of the political processes unfolding in Southeast Asia. Nevertheless, everything connected with this country, one way or another, is not only under close observation by leading regional players but also involves their participation to various extents. The question of control over the Philippines is becoming […]

The I2U2 — that much-heralded “West Asian Quad” of India, Israel, the UAE, and the United States — is gathering dust. Launched with fanfare in July 2022 and billed as a transformative framework for regional integration, it has produced little of consequence since its inaugural summit. Progress stalled through 2024, and its April 2025 revival […]

As Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing, Xi Jinping sent a carefully calibrated message to Washington: China’s dialogue with the United States will not come at the expense of its strategic partnership with Moscow. Beyond the symbolism and grand ceremony, the Putin-Xi summit revealed a deepening Sino-Russian alignment centered on energy, trade, and the construction of […]

The visits of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to Beijing revealed not only contrasting diplomatic styles but also a shifting global balance in which China is increasingly building a long-term Eurasian framework alongside Russia. For more than a decade, Western media narratives surrounding Russia and Vladimir Putin have oscillated between strategic alarmism, moral absolutism, and […]

The head of the Indian government paid visits to five countries – the UAE, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, and Italy – between 15 and 20 May. It is noteworthy that N. Modi set off on this trip immediately after the conclusion of the BRICS ministerial meeting in New Delhi, where India, as chair this year, […]

The Xi-Putin summit, held shortly after US President Donald Trump visited China, underscores strong cooperation between the two new superpowers and signals a new front against Western aggression. Russian President Vladimir Putin visited China, just 48 hours after the Xi-Trump summit in Beijing. The significance of this visit was magnified because it coincided with the […]

Behind the ceremonial diplomacy and promises of trade deals, the Beijing summit exposed a deeper geopolitical reality: China now negotiates with the United States on equal terms, with confidence and strategic patience. Xi Jinping’s real objective was not economic but to make one point unmistakably clear to Donald Trump — Taiwan remains China’s ultimate red […]

The back-to-back summits in Beijing revealed not only China’s growing diplomatic confidence but also the emergence of a deeper Sino-Russian axis that increasingly challenges the foundations of the US-led global order. Donald Trump flew home from Beijing with Boeing orders and a framework label. Forty-eight hours later, Vladimir Putin touched down at the same airport, […]

Post-2022 geopolitical developments and escalating tensions in the Persian Gulf have significantly strained relations between Iran and France, raising questions about the future of diplomatic engagement between the two countries. After the June 2025 military strike against Iran, France did not condemn it, and the subsequent triggering of the snapback mechanism caused relations between the […]

Trump’s China pilgrimage revealed not American strength but the exhaustion of an empire that increasingly mistakes spectacle for strategy, beneath smiling children and waving flags, standing between two civilizations moving in opposite psychological directions: one obsessed with image, the other quietly consolidating power. The Ceremony of Decline Upon arrival, young men and women stood along […]

The geopolitical uncertainty gripping the Eurasian region, from the conflict in Ukraine, and tensions between Russia and NATO to the strategic rivalry between the United States and China, has created a new dynamic for international relations. Amidst the maelstrom of interests between these major powers, Indonesia, as a country with a unique geopolitical position and […]

U.S. President Donald Trump’s two-day visit to China on May 14–15—the first in nearly a decade—turned out to be more of a spectacle than a diplomatic breakthrough and failed to yield any tangible results. When Chinese President Xi Jinping looked Donald Trump in the eye in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People and asked whether […]

The EU’s diplomacy has felt the weight of having basically the whole world against its double-standard application of international law and its own values and the accusations of being complicit in genocide and the brutal West Bank-Israel colonialism. In order to appease the world’s wrath, the EU has approved sanctions against individual settlers – not […]

Improving US–Russia relations under the Trump 2.0 administration is being challenged by alleged deep-state actions targeting Russian diplomats. The forced granting of US citizenship to diplomats’ children is portrayed as a violation of international diplomatic norms and a means of political pressure against Moscow. Such contradictions in American immigration and foreign policy risk escalating tensions, […]

The Trump-Xi summit, coming amidst fragile international markets, intensifying US-China competition, and escalating Middle East conflict, will critically analyze whether the two sides can manage competition without escalating risks. A Summit Amid Global Instability The summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his counterpart, US President Donald J. Trump, scheduled from May 13 to 15, comes […]

Serious setbacks have marked the latest attempts by Taiwan’s current leadership to position itself on the international stage as an “autonomous,” i.e., independent from the People’s Republic of China, participant of international relations. The formation of the “autonomy” component of the Taiwan issue The multi-layered and multifaceted Taiwan issue dates back to October 1971 when […]