BEIJING, TEHRAN - A year ago, on a sweltering May afternoon in 2025, a freight train painted in the livery of the China-Europe Railway Express negotiated the final kilometre of…
JAPAN: Japanese Tanker Transits Strait Of Hormuz After Obtaining Iran’s Permission.
A Japanese-owned supertanker carrying two million barrels of crude oil has successfully transited the Strait of Hormuz after securing permission from Iranian authorities, marking a rare passage through the strategic…
CHINA: A Financial Stranglehold On Shandong’s Shore: How America’s Sanctions War On Chinese “Teapots” Is Straining Global Trade And The Rules-Based Order.
DALIAN/BEIJING — The vessel-tracking screens at the world's commodity desks are painting a picture of a global oil trade in convulsions. On April 24, 2026, the U.S. Treasury Department escalated…
IRAN: Leader’s Aide: Unified Iran Stands Tall While ‘Deep Fracture’ Grips US-Europe Alliance.
TEHRAN, AYIA NAPA, LONDON — As the embers of the most devastating Middle Eastern conflict in a generation still smoulder beneath an unstable ceasefire, the geopolitical plates are shifting with…
CHINA-THAILAND: Chinese, Thai FMs Hold 3rd Consultation Mechanism Meeting.
BEIJING/BANGKOK - On April 24, 2026, as a late-afternoon Bangkok sun softened the hard edges of Government House, a carefully choreographed piece of political theatre unfolded. Thailand’s new prime minister,…
INDIA-ISRAEL: Operation Wings Of Dawn: Israel’s Strategic Airlift Of A ‘Lost Tribe’ Amid War And Demographic Calculus.
NEW DELHI/TEL AVIV — On Thursday, a blue-and-white balloon arch fluttered at Ben-Gurion Airport as 250 members of the Bnei Menashe community, descending from the forested hills of India's strife-torn…
PAKISTAN: Pahalgam Narrative Collapses Under Scrutiny As Pakistan Calls For Proof Over Propaganda.
ISLAMABAD / NEW DELHI — One year after the deadliest armed attack on civilians in the disputed Himalayan region in over two decades, the chasm between the official narratives of…
IRAN: Violations, Threats, Blockade Main Obstacle To Genuine Talks Says President Pezeshkian.
TEHRAN, WASHINGTON - The diplomatic channel between Tehran and Washington, fragile at the best of times, has devolved into a vortex of accusation, contradiction, and what Iranian officials are calling…
IRAN: The IRGC Seizes Two Israeli Ships In The Strait Of Hormuz Signal Escalating Maritime Confrontation Amid Fragile US-Iran Ceasefire.
TEHRAN, IRAN - Tensions in one of the world’s most critical energy corridors have sharply escalated after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy seized two commercial vessels and reportedly…
IRAN: The Touska Incident: Anatomy Of A Maritime Confrontation That Brought US–Iran To The Brink.
WASHINGTON/TEHRAN/ISLAMABAD — On the afternoon of Sunday, April 19, 2026, the Iranian-flagged container vessel Touska was steaming through the northern Arabian Sea toward the port of Bandar Abbas.
