Asia Pacific

Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay an official visit to China on May 19-20 at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping after US President Donald Trump’s state visit to Beijing, the Kremlin announced Saturday. According to a Kremlin statement, Putin and Xi will discuss bilateral relations, ways …

Mucahithan Avcioglu US chip giant Nvidia and materials science company Corning announced a multiyear commercial and technology partnership on Wednesday to expand US manufacturing capacity for optical connectivity solutions used in next-generation artificial intelligence infrastructure. Under the agreement, Corning will increase its US optical connectivity manufacturing capacity tenfold …

China moved on Friday to publicly reaffirm its longstanding position on Iran after speculation and conflicting reports circulated regarding Beijing’s stance during recent regional tensions, with the Chinese Foreign Ministry publishing a full statement outlining its official position. Asian diplomatic sources told Al Mayadeen that Washington is expected …

Dr, Shehab Al-Makahleh When a U.S. president walks into Beijing and leaves without mentioning Taiwan, the silence speaks louder than any communiqué. The reported visit of Donald Trump to China—culminating in a closed-door meeting with Xi Jinping—is not just another episode in great-power diplomacy. It is a signal that the architecture …

Harjeet Johal Like a petulant phantom, the theme of Europe has haunted British general elections for decades. Remember 1992 and the “No, No, No!” chant and other Maastricht machinations of the then-departed prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, echoing around John Major’s campaign? Those chants ended up in the heavy …

The core reason is straightforward: the ruling coalition wants to control the timing and narrative of its own collapse, rather than allow the opposition to claim it brought the government down. What is unfolding inside Israel is not simply a parliamentary procedure. It is a calculated political maneuver …

Amid a dense cluster of contentious files—foremost among them Iran—Donald Trump arrived in China on Wednesday ahead of a summit with Xi Jinping, in a visit shaped by escalating trade tensions and intensifying geopolitical crises, including the war involving Iran and the fallout from disruptions in the Strait …

Jack Sullivan The headlines suggest inevitability: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan condemns Israel as a “terror state,” while Benjamin Netanyahu warns those who dream of rebuilding empires to forget it. The rhetoric is sharp, theatrical, and often personal. Yet behind the thunder of speeches lies a quieter truth: Turkey and …

The Persian Gulf Strait Authority, launched by Iran on 5 May 2026, is the institutional capstone of a longer manoeuvre. Its visible apparatus reduces to an email address, a logo, and a permit form. Its operating significance is the formalisation of a coherent instrument for discretionary, sanctions-resilient pricing …