The opening of the Kartarpur Corridor allowing Indian Sikhs to travel to sacred Sikh sites within Pakistan looks like a positive step in Indian-Pakistani relations. However, there are ulterior motives.

There are certain themes and contradictions inherent in the national military strategy of China in the South China Sea.

Navigating waters dominated by great powers such as China requires Australia to rethink its maritime strategy.

For the second time in living memory, the West has lost strategic control of the South China Sea (SCS). The first time was 1940-41, when Imperial Japan obtained strategic dominance of the SCS by occupying French Indochina.

Africa’s demand for greater telecommunications infrastructure has attracted unprecedented levels of investment from China, but what are the implications to this?

The prospects of Catalonian secession are beset by numerous complexities at various levels of government.

Beleaguered social network Facebook is charging ahead with plans for world domination, in the face of falling public trust in its administration and multiple investigations by lawmakers in the US.

Love him or hate him, the House of Commons retiring Speaker will be sorely missed, by the public as well as lawmakers. But he will continue to have a presence.

The decision to impeach Trump is a decision made along party lines, though the advantages of following through with the impeachment are highly questionable.

The discovery of 39 Vietnamese in a lorry in Essex is part of a wider, global network of people-smuggling. This incident also demonstrates the changing motivations of refugees from Vietnam.