For most of this year, Beijing’s economic managers have offered a familiar reassurance: growth is cooling, but it’s cooling in a controlled, deliberate way — the natural byproduct of a planned shift
It arrived in the early hours: a low-altitude drone crossing into Romanian airspace, moving through the sky near Galați. Radar locked on, authorization was given, and a NATO fighter jet — a
For four decades, “the China story” was the only story worth telling about Asian growth. A command economy poured concrete, wired factories, and moved hundreds of millions of people from farms to
In a revealing interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, former Vice President Kamala Harris gave one of her most candid public assessments of the political landscape in recent memory —
China has long maintained that it does not supply arms to any party at war – a central tenet of its “noninterference” foreign policy. But in recent years, Beijing has repeatedly faced
In Bangladesh, remittances from migrant workers are a critical source of foreign currency, second only to the ready-made garment (RMG) sector’s export earnings (USD 41.61 billion in FY 2022). In 2023, the
In a high-stakes bid to dodge an all-out trade war with U.S. President Donald Trump, the European Union has pledged to buy $750 billion worth of American oil and gas by the
Just last week, the United Nations human rights experts issued an unusually sharp rebuke to Pakistan, expressing that they were “shocked at reports of increasing violence against vulnerable communities on grounds of
For nearly a quarter-century, Texas allowed undocumented students brought to the U.S. as children to pay the same in-state college tuition rates as other residents. That changed almost overnight. In a swift
The debate over whether to recognize a Palestinian state has once again divided Western capitals, as Europe grapples with the fallout of the ongoing war in Gaza. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni
In an era of intensifying geopolitical competition, few nations are navigating the international order with as much calculated poise as India. From sanctions pressure to trade reform, from delicate diplomacy with China
As anti-immigration rhetoric surges across Europe and the United States, it is vital that we look beyond fearmongering and examine what is really at stake. The narrative that human mobility is a
As European and Chinese leaders prepare to meet in Beijing on July 24 to mark 50 years of diplomatic relations, expectations for a breakthrough in China-EU relations remain low. Despite months of