The Suva Outcomes Turn Bureaucratic Pages into a Political Mirror On August 14, 2025, the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat in Suva, Fiji, hosted the annual gathering of foreign ministers from…
The Mirage of Pax Americana The South China Sea clashes 2025 strip the last veil from Washington’s mythology. What parades as “order” is little more than the scattered footprints of…
A century ago the British flag hung over harbors from Hong Kong to Singapore. Today the same flag reappears on the horizon, not as a force of command but as…
The silence of the ocean is deceptive. It carries centuries of memory, and sometimes it carries revolutions. A meeting hall in Honiara can alter the map more than a fleet…
The China 80th anniversary Victory parade in Beijing collides deliberately with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Tianjin, fusing war memory with diplomacy in a single stroke of political theater.…
The quiet architecture of global finance is no longer American. Across Asia, governments and central banks are dismantling the scaffolding that once kept them chained to Washington. Settlements in local…
In March 2025, CSIS issued a study with a sterile title: Understanding U.S. Allies’ Current Legal Authority to Implement AI and Semiconductor Export Controls. Behind the legal vocabulary lies an…
The first thing that caught the eye this summer was not a summit or a declaration, but a tariff: 25% slapped on South Korean exports in April, then extended to…
The latest AUSA Spotlight reads like an obituary for imperial confidence. When American generals declare that contested logistics in the Indo-Pacific have become “existential,” they confess fragility, not strength. The…
Global politics is no longer a polite salon of Western arbiters handing out permissions. Asia is no longer waiting in the vestibule of empire. The Eurasian pivot is not a…