India’s defense exports have increased significantly as the country’s military sales for FY 2023–24 totalled ₹21,083 crore (about $2.6 billion), a ten-fold increase from ₹1,941 crore in 2014-15. India now exports to over 100 nations. Armenia, the US, and France were the top three countries for these … [Read more...]

By Alex Leary, Alexander Ward, Lingling Wei WASHINGTON—President-elect Donald Trump has told advisers he wants to travel to China after he takes office, according to people familiar with the discussions, seeking to deepen a relationship with Xi Jinping strained by the president-elect’s threat to … [Read more...]

Executive Summary  NATO nations face three converging challenges that together require renewed European resource commitments to defense: 1) extreme Russian military aggressiveness and revanchism as displayed in Ukraine, and which if unchecked could extend beyond Ukraine, 2) rising Chinese military … [Read more...]

By Tye Graham and Peter W. Singer The Ukraine conflict is more than a distant spectacle to China’s People’s Liberation Army; it offers a real-time battlefield laboratory to study for its own strategic needs. From drone swarms to electronic warfare, its lessons are being methodically analyzed and … [Read more...]

By: Stephen Kuper Nobody has ever said that defending Australia will come cheap. Following a big year for defence budgeting and the national accounts in particular, this has come to the fore, but with the next-half of this decade set to be more challenging, what is the true cost for defending the … [Read more...]

by Fabien Bévis Un potentiel économique majeur pour la Roumanie Depuis 1989, la Roumanie importe plus qu’elle n’exporte. Cependant, le secteur des transports routiers se distingue comme le premier contributeur à l’export de services, avec un chiffre d’affaires de 7,82 milliards d’euros en 2023. … [Read more...]

Stephen Chen in Beijing In a secluded hot spring pool in the coastal town of Xingcheng in northeast China, a group of 50 robust men move their bodies in unison, practising a form of qigong known as baduanjin while a melody drifts through the mist. Aged between 23 and 48, the men are China’s top … [Read more...]

Washington, Dec. 12 (CNA) A former United States national security advisor on Thursday confirmed delivering President Lai Ching-te's (賴清德) congratulatory letter to Donald Trump, calling it a "great start" for relations between the two sides. Robert O'Brien, who served as Trump's national security … [Read more...]

By Kamran Bokhari The Assad regime, which had ruled Syria for nearly half a century, fell over the weekend after rebels took control the capitol of Damascus. Former President Bashar Assad fled the country and was granted asylum in Moscow. He leaves in his place a strategic vacuum that, when filled, … [Read more...]

"Immediately after the ceasefire came into force at 4am, residents of south Lebanon, the southern suburbs of Beirut and the Bekaa (valley) began their return after months of forced displacement,” said the UN refugee agency, UNHCR. “Heavy traffic [was] observed on the highway from Beirut to the south … [Read more...]