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IFRC Plans To Double Size Of Disaster Response Emergency Fund By 2030

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) thanks governments and partners for their commitments made at the 2025 IFRC-DREF Pledging Conference, held in Geneva on November 7, 2025

2025-11-08 13:20:46 0 Comment 7484 view

Trump, Xi Agree To Trade Deal, But The US-led Confrontation With China Continues

US President Trump’s much anticipated summit with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping last week in South Korea finished with nothing more than an uncertain one-year truce in an economic war that has been dramatically escalated by Trump since returning to office this year

2025-11-08 13:08:35 0 Comment 12157 view

Malaysia-US Trade Pact Risks Bypassing Procurement Laws, Putting Multi-billion Ringgit GLC Investments Beyond Oversight

During the recent ASEAN Summit 2025, Malaysia and the United States of America signed a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA)

2025-11-08 12:49:17 0 Comment 12547 view

US Pact Undercuts Malaysia’s Regional Partnerships, Neutrality while Delivering Little Reassurance

The Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) is concerned about both the outcomes and process surrounding the recently signed Agreement Between the U.S. and Malaysia on Reciprocal Trade (ART)

2025-11-03 06:19:43 0 Comment 12437 view

The Rare-Earth Leverage: How China Turns Metal Into Geopolitical Power

China controls over eighty percent of the world’s extraction and processing of rare earth metals. Every chip, every electric motor, every satellite—all of it runs on resources drawn from Chinese soil

2025-11-03 06:08:09 0 Comment 9835 view

Irreplaceable: What Recent Conflicts Teaches Us About Manned Rotary-Wing Aviation

If the war in Ukraine has a single, uncomfortable lesson for militaries worldwide, it is this: technology and tempo change the character of conflict, but tried-and-tested platforms still matter

2025-11-03 03:42:26 0 Comment 11974 view

ASEAN At A Strategic Crossroads: Trading Growth For Dependence

As the United States intensifies its trade and strategic manoeuvring in the Indo-Pacific, Southeast Asia finds itself once more at the intersection of global power politics

2025-10-31 02:25:51 0 Comment 16589 view

Critical Minerals, Critical Mistakes: Why America’s Rare-Earth War Will Fail

The Trump administration’s recent drive to lock down access to rare-earths and critical minerals is being sold as a matter of national security. Yet what looks like strategic prudence on the surface amounts to geopolitical coercion in practice

2025-10-31 02:19:06 0 Comment 13238 view

Libya: A Criminal Paradise At Europe’s Doorstep

The common image of the Sahel is one of arid lands, poverty, and despair. But this image is dangerously outdated

2025-10-31 02:12:52 0 Comment 10085 view

‘America First’ Meets ‘ASEAN Way’ In Kuala Lumpur

The 2025 ASEAN and East Asia Summits in Kuala Lumpur beginning today are set to be consequential multilateral gatherings — defining not only ASEAN’s internal cohesion but also the shape of U.S.–China relations in the Indo-Pacific

2025-10-28 02:26:29 0 Comment 18489 view

Malaysia, U.S. Trade Deal: A Sovereignty Sell-Out?

Malaysia has long taken pride in its ability to maintain an independent foreign policy, being friendly to all and aligned with none

2025-10-28 02:20:51 0 Comment 97204 view

Why German Rearmament Isn't Happening

On October 13, Germany’s government had to cancel at the last minute a press conference at which it planned to announce a new bill expanding military conscription

2025-10-28 01:34:56 0 Comment 17913 view

Why Trump Is The Saviour For ASEAN And The World

President Donald J. Trump’s decision to attend the October 2025 ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur is a powerful three-pronged message to regional powers and adversaries alike

2025-10-27 12:55:09 0 Comment 13896 view

When Critical Infrastructure Comes Under Fire, Democracies Must Demand Answers

Recent fires and explosions at energy facilities in Hungary and Romania have reopened a deeply unsettling conversation about the fragility of critical infrastructure and the politics that surround it

2025-10-27 12:48:22 0 Comment 13046 view

Latin America’s Time For Soul-Searching: Reviving Bolívar’s Dream Of Unity And Sovereignty

For far too long, the nations of Latin America have allowed themselves to be picked off one by one

2025-10-23 03:04:06 0 Comment 17954 view

Army ‘Hitting Stride’ With 155mm Production, But General Worries Over What’s Needed Next

After decades of stagnation, America’s ammunition industry is beginning to boom again, according to a senior Army official

2025-10-23 02:56:27 0 Comment 24752 view

Will Trump Really Attack Venezuela?

It’s ironic that in the same week that President Donald Trump escalated the drug war in the Caribbean by unleashing the CIA against Nicolás Maduro’s regime in Venezuela, the Department of Justice won an indictment against former National Security Adviser John Bolton, the architect of the failed covert strategy to overthrow Maduro during the first Trump administration

2025-10-22 04:12:32 0 Comment 29191 view

Europe’s Chip Seizure: A Shortsighted Act Of Economic Self-Sabotage

The Dutch government’s decision to seize control of a Chinese-owned semiconductor firm Nexperia marks a dangerous turn in Europe’s growing fixation with “technological sovereignty.”

2025-10-21 12:21:12 0 Comment 20350 view

Reformasi ASEAN Dan Mengangkat Darjat Negara

Sidang Kemuncak ASEAN ke-47 menjadi platform strategik dan kritikal bagi Malaysia dalam mengangkat peranan kepimpinan Malaysia sebagai Pengerusi ASEAN 2025, terutamanya dalam aspek membentuk acuan baharu bagi ASEAN dan untuk keluar daripada perangkap kepompong konvensional yang bersifat regional dan extended regional sphere

2025-10-21 08:09:19 0 Comment 14574 view