Iran-Saudi deal showcases Xi’s alternative world order

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Diplomats and analysts around the world are still trying to decipher China’s stunning diplomatic coup in brokering a peace deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Other than the emergence of China with a new and unprecedented role as peacemaker in the Middle East, the most apparent takeaway for the Americans is that the United States […]Continue Reading

Divergent perceptions of China impact geopolitics 

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Countries in the Middle East view China’s growing power and influence in starkly different terms from the US and many of its Western allies. These alternative strategic perceptions are likely to have a decisive impact on geopolitics in the years to come. In some ways, they already are.  Western perceptions align US policymakers on both […]Continue Reading

Southeast Asia’s power dynamic is not quite “Game of Thrones”

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As jostling superpowers U.S. and China continue to maintain global influence, Southeast Asia’s combined power could put the region in a prime position to rise to the top rungs of political potential, as Australian think tank Lowy Institute’s latest Asia Power Index suggests

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Pheu Thai ups stakes in race

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The Pheu Thai Party has recently revised its MP target, aiming to capture 310 House seats in the next polls — an ambitious scale-up from the 250 seats — and form a solid single-party government. The move is seen by academics as a major task and tactic to intensify the campaign and to get rid of the pro-Prayut camp.Continue Reading