South East Asia

Key Takeaways: Washington as a stage. Xi is due Wednesday, 23 Sept, with trade, AI, and security on the card. RFA’s Ding Wang (pseudonym): the real audience is home, before next year’s Party congress and a possible fourth term. A high-profile Trump meeting, then state TV, is meant to show …

September 27, 2024 – The deadly pager attack in Lebanon has sparked global concerns over supply chain security. Chinese international relations scholar Shen Yi stated that China should take some measures in response to the U.S.’s increasingly aggressive stance in the strategic competition with China. When someone first sent me …

Behind China’s aircraft carriers lies the strategic depth of the Pacific; behind Türkiye’s, however, lie narrow seas that are becoming increasingly transparent. One of the most consequential mistakes in debating the future of naval power is to treat the platforms operated by major powers as models that can be replicated …

Pakistan should honor its defense commitments to Saudi Arabia through strictly defensive cooperation and protection of maritime commerce, while avoiding offensive military action against the Houthis that could drag Islamabad into a wider Middle Eastern conflict, alienate Iran, and deepen its domestic and strategic vulnerabilities. Pakistan should honor its defense …

Key Takeaways: The author treats the Aug. 31 Putin–Xi meeting in Bishkek (their second in 2026, after Putin’s May China visit) as the latest show of a post–Cold War thaw: the 4,300 km border was settled in treaties through 2008, and official language now calls ties “unprecedented,” especially after Western …

There has been no shortage of complaints about Chinese overcapacity in recent years. Beijing’s commitment to driving exports and widening its trade surplus, by any means necessary, has undermined the manufacturing aspirations of advanced economies such as the United States and those in Europe, as well as developing countries in …

Le rapprochement entre la Turquie, le Qatar et le Pakistan ne constitue pas, contrairement à ce qu’une lecture rapide pourrait laisser croire, un «axe des Frères musulmans». La réalité est plus complexe et, pour cette raison même, beaucoup plus intéressante : derrière trois États aux histoires, aux institutions et aux …

Alors que la guerre américano-israélienne contre l’Iran entre dans son sixième mois, l’attention se tourne vers la Chine et sa position dans ce conflit. Cependant, les calculs de Pékin ne se limitent pas à déterminer qui gagne et qui perd, mais portent davantage sur les répercussions de la guerre sur …

En choisissant La Mecque, la Turquie, l’Arabie saoudite & le Pakistan ont envoyé un message clair : c’est une déclaration liée à la défense des musulmans, et pas seulement de leurs pays respectifs. L’Arabie saoudite, la Turquie & le Pakistan signent l’“Accord de défense commune de La Mecque” L’Arabie saoudite, …

Bab al-Mandab n’est pas fermé. La tension y est palpable. En début de semaine, le ministre iranien de l’Intérieur, Eskandar Momeni, est arrivé à Islamabad à la tête d’une délégation de haut niveau. Mardi, il avait déjà rencontré le Premier ministre Shehbaz Sharif, le maréchal Asim Munir ainsi que son …