How Malacca Strait vulnerabilities, China–Myanmar corridors, and Bangladesh’s trade ambitions reshape regional connectivity and strategic choices.

A quip about language reveals deeper histories of empire, translation, and the myth of linguistic inevitability

China is closely studying the US-Iran war, extracting strategic, economic, and technological lessons with far-reaching global implications.

As Hormuz tensions persist, Bangladesh faces an urgent test of energy security, diplomacy, and strategic autonomy choices.

Bangladesh’s evolving trade talks with the US signal a shift where economics and geopolitics increasingly overlap now.

Amid escalating tensions in Hormuz, a poetic lens through Hafez reveals history, politics, and uneasy regional ambitions.

After US President Trump abruptly announced an extension of the ceasefire between Iran and the US, indirect negotiations through Pakistan seemed to be on the table.

When analysing the commentary around the US-Iran-Israel war, what has mostly been ignored is: why is it Pakistan that has emerged as the key mediator in the most consequential war that’s impacted the world?

Former US President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally. A look at the history of attacks on American leaders.

Global power transitions from the age of oil to electrons, defining a dual world order of entanglement.

Surging energy costs and the Hormuz crisis demand urgent India-Pakistan economic integration to bypass vulnerable global maritime chokepoints.

Donald Trump’s erratic diplomacy and naval blockades jeopardise Pakistan’s mediation efforts to prevent another catastrophic regional conflict.

Trump's 2025 tariffs inflated prices and slowed growth, showing that slogans cannot override economic reality.

Global economic devastation, diplomatic isolation for Israel, and shifting regional security alliances signal a fragmenting international order.

Between late December 2025 and late January 2026, Myanmar held its first general election since the military junta, officially the State Administration Council (SAC), seized power in its February 2021 coup.

Contrary to analyses by some Western media, the US naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz might achieve the precise opposite of its stated aims of submission of the Iranian regime, by empowering Tehran as a defiant power, and accelerating the very multipolar realignment Washington has long sought to contain.

Trump faces conservative backlash after attacking the Pope and sharing a blasphemous AI image amid apocalyptic omens.

Beyond missiles, Iran’s buried architecture at Qeshm Island transforms the Strait of Hormuz into a subterranean battlespace.

Trump’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz risks derailing US–Iran talks, escalating tensions over nuclear demands and global oil supplies.

A fragile US-Iran ceasefire faces collapse as strategic failures, regional strikes, and unresolved geopolitical tensions threaten renewed warfare.