6+ hour, 5+ min ago  (1690+ words) Three months into his premiership, Tarique Rahman still hasn't left Bangladesh on an official foreign visit. That restraint is itself a diplomatic act." For a leader who spent 17 years in London exile, returned to win a landslide election, and now…...

3+ hour, 17+ min ago  (74+ words) Hundreds of Greenlanders demonstrated outside the new US Consulate in Nuuk on Thursday as President Donald Trump's envoy signaled that Trump...

2+ hour, 22+ min ago  (664+ words) Bangladesh's rulers have a habit of renaming institutions when they become politically radioactive. Roads are renamed after coups, and laws after public outrage. The practice is usually useless. Now, the same survival instinct is being applied to the Rapid Action…...

4+ hour, 49+ min ago  (739+ words) There is an old Chinese proverb that says the skilled hunter does not chase the rabbit " he positions himself where the rabbit must eventually run. Xi Jinping, whatever his many critics may argue, has been extraordinarily patient. And now, in…...

6+ hour, 5+ min ago  (308+ words) Several of them quietly close the door on partition. And yet the Quartet, the General Assembly, the editorial pages of the'New York Times, and a depressingly large portion of the American foreign policy establishment continue to recite the formula, as…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (636+ words) Heavy US aircraft losses in the Middle East are raising fresh doubts about whether US airpower can withstand sustained attrition in a future Pacific war against China. This month, the US Congressional Research Service (CRS) released a'report'stating that the US…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (1072+ words) China's leader Xi Jinping made a publicity splash this week during the visit to Beijing of US President Donald Trump when he referred to a book titled The Thucydides Trap about the ancient Greek historian's treatise on war. The book's…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (581+ words) Top Democrats on a pair of panels in the'US House'of Representatives have demanded that Justice and Treasury department leaders answer for how they settled President Donald Trump's $10 billion "sham'lawsuit'against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax records....

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (851+ words) A year has passed since conflict broke out between India and Pakistan, briefly raising fears of an all-out war between the two nuclear powers. While violent conflict between the neighbors has been commonplace for the past 80 years, this latest round…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (656+ words) The Trump-Xi summit in Beijing may have projected calm at the leader level, but it should not be mistaken for strategic convergence. Whatever one makes of the new language of "constructive strategic stability," the underlying reality is one of constrained…...