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Expert briefing
Publication date: 9 August 2018

Riyadh reacted to Ottawa’s criticism of the arrests by breaking diplomatic ties and immediately withdrawing investments, trade, students and medical patients, demanding support…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 18 January 2021

Distracted by a spiralling pandemic and crisis in its political institutions, the incoming US government will struggle to establish new initiatives both in Nigeria and across West…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 19 May 2017

In a packed, high-profile programme, Trump will meet Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) leaders, attend bilateral Saudi talks and address a summit of Muslim rulers. This comes four…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 6 October 2017

This is the first visit to Washington by a Thai prime minister since 2005. Thai-US relations have been much cooler since the mid-2014 military coup that Prayuth, as an army…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 13 July 2023

In May, the National Election Committee (NEC) disqualified the Candlelight Party (CP) -- the only credible opposition player -- from participating in the polls, citing failure to…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 10 March 2022

Russia has in recent years sought to increase its economic engagement with South-east Asia to circumvent Western sanctions and mitigate the risk of overdependence on China. Moscow…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 26 September 2019

Germany's far-right threat.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 10 October 2023

The United States thereby joined the small list of countries -- which includes China -- to have this level of diplomatic relations with Vietnam. Hanoi and Washington announced…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 20 March 2023

Christodoulides is taking charge at a time of high political volatility. Though he is from the ruling Democratic Rally (DISY), he was not DISY's candidate, won with the support of…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 22 November 2022

Vietnam has a policy of ‘cooperation and struggle’ towards China. The two sides have robust economic ties, but there are long-standing political and cultural tensions between them.

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