Vietnam–Japan: Strategic Trust Without an Alliance 
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ASEAN Rehabilitates Myanmar’s Revamped Military Regime Costly Malaysia-Thailand seafood stand-off nears an end
Malaysia and Thailand are edging closer to resolving a tit-for-tat seafood safety dispute, offering a lifeline to exporters after weeks of halted shipments and retaliatory…
Current Affairs
Gulf gamble: will South Korea step up for Strait of Hormuz security?
The expected reopening of the Strait of Hormuz under a US-Iran ceasefire framework could ease pressure on South Korea’s energy-dependent economy while creating a thornier…
American flag blue? Algae turns Trump’s reflecting pool swamp green instead
One of President Donald Trump’s pet beauty projects for Washington was supposed to make the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool look blue, like part of the…
SpaceX vaults past Amazon’s market value, briefly topping Microsoft
SpaceX roared past Amazon’s market valuation on Tuesday and briefly topped that of Microsoft, rapidly scaling the list of the world’s most valuable companies on…
Latin America and Europe are bystanders in the US-China AI race, says Lula’s top adviser
The race for artificial intelligence has hardened into a two-power contest between the United States and China, fought over rare earths, data and the rules…
Europe is gearing up for a trade fight with China. But will it change anything?
As trade tensions between Beijing and Brussels continue to rise, China’s firms in the European Union have been forced to walk a delicate tightrope: expanding…