Thaw in relations. During a meeting with Australia's prime minister on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Laos, Chinese ...

Copper is crucial to the global economy, and its importance is only going up. Historically, copper has been vital in ...

Cutting ties. North Korea’s military said it will cut off road and railway connections to South Korea, according to a report by North Korean state media.

North Korea’s rubber-stamp legislature convened this week, tasked with amending the constitution to designate South Korea as a “hostile” country, remove clauses related to reunification and redraw the ...

It’s been said for years that drones are the future of warfare. Their advantages are obvious: They are light and maneuverable and can deliver payloads without directly risking the lives of their ...

I wrote an article on the two wars raging in Eurasia. It was “idiosyncratic” in that, unlike other columns circling the mediasphere, it focused ...

Kazakh doubts. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said construction and operation of a future nuclear power plant in the country should be entrusted to an international consortium. The comment, ...

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Security matters. Top security officials from the Russia-led Commonwealth of Independent States are holding a summit in Kazakhstan. At the gathering, the chief of Russia’s FSB intelligence agency, ...

International sanctions, disrupted logistics, rising prices and inflation expectations, and the difficulties of replacing banned imports with homegrown substitutes have placed heavy strain on the ...