Southeast Asia

Japan Turns Toward Azerbaijan: Oil, Logistics, and a New Eurasian Strategy The first official visit to Tokyo in seventeen years by Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov may have received relat...

Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov has departed for Japan on an official visit. It is the first official visit by an Azerbaijani foreign minister to Japan in the past 17 years. When Azerbai...

The official visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to China on May 19–20 was far more than another demonstration of Sino-Russian partnership. Talks between Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping r...

Every time tensions rise around the Strait of Hormuz, global markets react almost instinctively: oil prices surge, governments grow anxious and investors rush toward safe-haven assets.

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing on Tuesday evening for his first foreign trip of the year — a visit intended to demonstrate the strategic depth of the partnership between Moscow an...

The state visit of U.S. President Donald Trump to China concluded on Friday with a rare display of diplomatic warmth between Washington and Beijing. Yet beneath the carefully choreographed ceremony re...

U.S. President Donald Trump Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping Xi Jinping sought on the first day of the American leader’s state visit to China to demonstrate readiness to stabilize relatio...

When U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in China this week, the official agenda focused on trade, technology and the future of U.S.-China relations. But behind the diplomatic ceremonies and economic...

While Washington and Beijing continue exchanging tariffs, sanctions and accusations of technological espionage, a far more dangerous crisis may be discussed behind the scenes of President Donald Trump...

China is strengthening its position in Central Asia’s energy sector, while Russian state-owned companies are losing ground, reflecting a deeper structural shift driven by capital availability, technol...

Relations between Azerbaijan and China are entering a new phase in which economic interaction is increasingly intertwined with geopolitical calculations. In recent years, bilateral ties have evolved f...

China used this year’s Boao Forum for Asia to present itself as a stabilising force in a fragmented global economy, even as analysts warned that deep structural weaknesses and geopolitical pressures c...

When the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) convened its annual summit this year, two South Caucasus countries were noticeably absent from its inner circle. Azerbaijan and Armenia, both aspiring...

When Xi Jinping addressed the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Tianjin this week, his tone carried ambitions that stretched well beyond a Eurasian security bloc. What began in 2001 as a reg...

Amid waning U.S. influence and Moscow’s loss of control, a new player is quietly but steadily entering the geopolitics of the South Caucasus — China. Traditionally focused on its immediate neighbor...

The state visit of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to China from April 22 to 24, 2025, marked a significant recalibration of Baku’s foreign policy, elevating bilateral ties with Beijing to the leve...