Global Watch

The Islamic Republic’s failed strike on Diego Garcia suggests that even the most secure outposts are no longer beyond reach. For decades, distance was Diego Garcia’s greatest defence. Marooned in... Read More

The plight of Pakistan’s hockey players exposes a country obsessed with reputation at the cost of institutional decay. Pakistan's latest embarrassment concerns its national hockey players, who were recently compelled... Read More

Canada’s fighter-jet dilemma exposes a deeper rupture in North American trust. Canada’s fighter-jet procurement has become a proxy war for something far larger than defence modernisation. As reported by the... Read More

With Sanae Takaichi’s landslide, Tokyo signals a harder line at home, a sharper edge abroad, and a readiness to reshape the Indo-Pacific balance. Japan does not often deliver political earthquakes.... Read More

America’s Syrian gamble rewards brutality, betrays the Kurds and reveals how cheaply Donald Trump trades in memory. In the space of two days, Syria’s map has been redrawn with a... Read More

As Asia’s balance of power tilts and American certainty fades, Japan confronts the limits of pacifism in a nuclear neighbourhood. East Asia is once again reminding Japan that geography is... Read More

By treating Greenland as a piece of real estate, America risks turning the high north into its next geopolitical wound. Greenland, the world’s largest island and one of its smallest... Read More

A Saudi–Emirati rift, not Yemen’s civil war, is now shaping the fate of the Arabian Peninsula’s poorest state. Yemen has never lacked for factions, but rarely have its internal quarrels... Read More

When Beijing and Islamabad lecture the world on bullying, the joke is not lost on Asia. China and Pakistan have discovered a new cause in jointly opposing “hegemonism,” “bullying behaviours”... Read More

America’s strikes on Islamic State militants reveal a country fracturing anew under the weight of history, sectarian fear and geopolitical neglect. A year after the fall of Bashar al-Assad and... Read More