Analysis and commentary on geopolitics, foreign policy, diplomacy, security, and global governance. This category examines how states pursue their interests, manage conflicts, build partnerships, and shape the evolving international order.
At a moment when global trade patterns are being redrawn and supply chains reassembled by geopolitical pressure, two of Southeast Asia’s most strategically intertwined economies met in Jakarta to reaffirm the depth — and expand the ambition — of their bilateral partnership. The 16th Singapore-Indonesia Six Bilateral Economic Working Groups Ministerial Meeting, held in Jakarta […]
In 1823, President James Monroe warned European powers to stay out of the Americas. In 1904, Theodore Roosevelt asserted America’s right to intervene as a regional police power. And in 2025, nearly two centuries after Monroe’s original message, the second Trump administration unveiled its own update: the “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine. Buried in […]
In a landmark address at the 2026 Shangri-La Dialogue, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth delivered a blunt, unvarnished vision of the Pacific region that breaks sharply from decades of American foreign policy. Speaking under the banner of President Donald Trump’s second term, Hegseth outlined a doctrine of “flexible practical realism” – one that abandons […]
A Fork in the Road for Canada’s EV Policy In the quiet corridors of Parliament Hill and on farms stretching across the Prairies, a debate is simmering—one that may change the way Canadians drive, trade, and even how North America approaches climate goals. The question? Whether Canada should scrap its 100% tariff on Chinese-made electric […]