With Blinken's trip to Fiji, the Biden administration wanted to signal a renewed focus on the Pacific Islands. It will take more than one trip to make that message stick.

Chinese athletes must navigate not only their chosen sports but also CCP redlines, online nationalism, and corporate demands.  

Maldivians cannot wait much longer for durable solutions to the threats posed by climate change.

A study from 2003 – now available in exclusive English translation – contains important insights on China’s fifth-generation (and beyond) fighter development.

Years after an explosion of accusations centered on the media industry, the movement has not had any lasting effects in Sri Lanka.

Xi is promoting a new vision to tackle long-standing problems like the rural-urban divide, food security, and poverty.

African countries have the agency to use relations with China to their own advantage. Whether African leaders will use their power to benefit their people is another question.

The Taliban claim to have defeated the self-declared Islamic State’s Afghan chapter, but exclusive information obtained by The Diplomat indicates that its success is not what it seems.

Vietnam is reluctant to include the 1979 conflict in history textbooks, continuing a decades-long silence.

How did a grant from the United States turn into a years-long political battle in Kathmandu?

The Compacts of Free Association (COFA) between the U.S. and the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau touch on nearly every U.S. national priority. So why are renegotiations stuck in limbo?