India, U.S. boost defense ties;
Pakistan cashes in on Russia's energy sell-off;
Counterterrorism worries push China, Iran, Pakistan together;
Nepal works to improve tepid ties to India...;
...As Delhi flexes its maritime muscle
War service becomes a (mostly) blank check for misbehavior;
New understandings between Moscow and Havana;
A stumbling block for Western efforts to seize Russian assets;
What was Prigozhin thinking?;
Minsk's role in Russian war crimes
Last year, more than a million people left Russia, marking what is likely the largest yearly emigration in recorded history... There are real and tangible threats which require sustained attention from the national security apparats of countries that are hosting Russian migrants now or will do so in the future.
China's millionaire exodus;
China records fewest marriages in more than three decades;
China is recruiting Canadians online;
China and Pakistan sign $4.8 billion nuclear power deal;
U.S. files charges against Chinese fentanyl makers
With NATO’s latest gathering this week in Vilnius, Washington is understandably focused on what the United States and its allies should do next to help Ukraine rebuff Russia. Moscow’s invasion, however, is part of a larger, multi-nation challenge to which Washington has not yet developed a comprehensive response.
That challenge is the axis of deepening diplomatic, military, and economic cooperation between China, Russia, and Iran. Washington is responding to individual provocations in ways that seem to contradict one another.