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China’s savvy pivot in courting Muslim Indonesia

Beijing’s long courtship of Indonesia’s Muslim communities reached a new milestone this month, when the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), the nation’s top body of Islamic scholars, traveled to China. The five-day “Digital Silk Road” program brought MUI council members to Guangzhou

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Prepare for wild and dangerous scenarios on the Korean Peninsula

North Korea and Russia have approaches to the value of human life and risk that are radically different from those of the West – a reality that US and South Korean defense planners must prepare for. State-sanctioned violence and militarism form the foundation of the rejuvenated

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French deal with Ukraine starts out with a whimper, not a bang

France has made a “big deal” with Ukraine that includes billions of Euros in Ukrainian purchases of French systems and licenses to produce a number of weapons including SCALP/Storm Shadow, a long range cruise missile, Aster 30 interceptors for the SAMP/T NG air defense system

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Whither ASEAN? A decade of silence on the South China Sea

This article first appeared on Pacific Forum and is republished with permission. Read the original here. July 12 marked the 10th anniversary of the arbitral tribunal ruling in favor of the Philippines on its South China Sea submission — a ruling China ignored, and one that has

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