Thailand’s Land Bridge: Strategic Alternative or Costly Detour?
Thailand’s proposed Land Bridge was designed to bypass the Malacca Strait. Its latest downsizing highlights the difficulty of building geopolitical resilience
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Manufacturing in Asia: Why Geopolitics is Playing an Increasing Role in Supply Chains
Geopolitics, not cost, is now redrawing the region's supply chain map
A Strike in Search of a Purpose
“We’re going to take out Pickaxe Mountain.
Election Watch: The Right Wave Reaches Bogotá
A deteriorating security environment has handed Colombia's right its best electoral opening in a decade. The question is whether it can unite behind a single candidate to take it.
America First Means America Alone
For most of the postwar era, American power came with a quiet assumption…
Trump visits China
The world’s two most powerful leaders meet in Beijing amid high hopes for progress on an agenda spanning Iran, Taiwan, trade tensions and the global race to dominate AI.
After Three Attempts on Trump, a Question Mark Looms Over US World Cup Security
Mexico was the World Cup host nation that concerned security planners most, but the United States now carries significant concerns of its own for executive protection teams looking after VVIPs during
Who Wants to Captain a Sinking Ship? Four Candidates Line Up to Lead the UN
The UN's next Secretary-General will inherit a broken institution. The question is whether it can be fixed, or whether it is already too late.
Iran reveals safe route through Strait of Hormuz
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) has provided alternative safe routes for shipping through the Strait of Hormuz during the two week ceasefire with the U.S. and Israel, to avoid “possible collisions
SITREP: Trump considers seizing Iran’s Kharg Island
U.S. President Donald Trump has indicated he may consider sending troops to seize Kharg Island, Iran’s main oil export hub, in a move analysts say would be high-risk and potentially costly.