India and Japan just told Beijing where the line is drawn in the Indo-Pacific

Tokyo and New Delhi have ended the equivocation on China. The diplomatic wording that Defence Minister Rajnath Singh used this week during his signing of a Memorandum of Arrangement (MoA) with Shinjiro Koizumi, his Japanese counterpart, was correct, as it is always in a security pact, but the tone was clear: Both sides expressed their objection to unilateral measures or actions that affect the freedom and safety of navigation and overflight and to any change of the status quo by force or coercion.

Trump's Hormuz Boast Runs Into an Economy Iran Still Won't Surrender

President Trump told reporters on Air Force 1 today that he has "total control" of the Strait of Hormuz and land around it, and Iran is "not ready to make the right deal.

Trump's Economic D-Day: Betting Sanctions Can Finish What Six Months of War Could Not

President Trump has taken the victory rhetoric from the battlefield to the balance sheet, six months into a war that was supposed to be short.

Brussels prepares its sharpest economic weapon yet against Israel over East Jerusalem settlement push

The quiet diplomatic threat is becoming a serious one. This week Channel 13 reported that two Western diplomats had confirmed the EU has quietly been building a suite of sanctions against Israel which would be imposed as soon as bulldozers start rolling on the E1 corridor, the land that lies in the West Bank between Jerusalem and the settlement block of Ma'ale Adumim.

Trump's Drill Cut Hands Kim a Win Washington May Struggle to Take Back

The call to cut down came from Washington just hours before eighteen thousand South Korean troops were to report for duty for the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise.