If smog is poisoning Lahore, it is perpetual neglect that plagues Karachi.

Vice President-elect J.D. Vance has already suggested that the new administration may condition NATO funding on Europe gutting key internet regulations, asserting that “we’ve got to say American power comes with certain strings attached.”

The government and the central bank both need to take action now to set buffers in place against the potential fallout from the Trumponomics agenda, including capital outflows, rupiah depreciation and adverse pressures on manufacturing.

The Modi government has shown no interest in resuming talks with Islamabad even on other issues, including trade, preferring to maintain a strategic freeze on relations with Pakistan. It has apparently concluded that this only hurts Pakistan and not India.

Despite its UNCLOS membership, China has steadfastly claimed sovereignty over all the islands and islets, and maritime rights over almost the entire SCS under its nebulous nine-dash line theory (lately amended to 10-dash line) that had been invalidated by the Arbitral Award.

Trump's approach to China has been both consistent and, well, simplistic. On the one hand, he has long blamed weak US policy toward China as responsible for the decline of American manufacturing. On the other hand, Trump professes a kind of admiration for the Chinese leader.

The ongoing technology war is a high-stakes contest for global dominance in critical areas such as semiconductors, artificial intelligence, space missions, and 5G technology.

The ASEAN Human Rights Declaration, a nonbinding instrument that was adopted in 2012, must be transformed into an actionable framework to meet today’s needs, and one pathway toward this is to empower the AICHR so it can protect human rights across the region.

Trade and defence are early flash points. Trump has long believed that the network of US alliances and the free-trade regime has allowed countries to take advantage of the US. These are firm beliefs that he will not change, despite evidence to the contrary.

If we are to pay any attention to the clamour of hate online, it would appear that a large number of men in this country actually think women have been given too much freedom over the past few decades and need to be put in their rightful place.

A new reality is emerging for journalists covering environmental issues. Just as climate-related disasters are becoming more frequent, journalists reporting on them are facing serious threats and challenges to their work.