For victims of war, peace is more than the absence of fighting or the assessment of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

The Thai-Cambodian border ceasefire is naturally hailed as a success, but only for stopping the recent conflict without resolving the festering dispute.

Superpowers may be less vulnerable to the hostility of lesser powers, but are nonetheless particularly vulnerable to their own flawed policies.

Beyond differences on the surface, Brics and Asean share the core imperative of achieving comprehensive development in the final stretch.

After Donald Trump's multiple efforts to unravel US primacy in the world, a decision to join Israel in attacking Iran could become his administration's final decisive act.

The Trump White House is now realising that ending a trade war, like any other war, is harder than starting it.

Malaysia is organising not only an Asean Summit this week, but a series of summits around the 46th Asean Summit while retaining Asean centrality.

Unfriendly US policies on other countries have not only failed but backfired, with indiscriminate tariffs being just the latest.

Even as foreign governments are humiliated in appealing to lift punishing US tariffs, those tariffs themselves are becoming humiliatingly hollow.

The best defence against Trump 2.0's worldwide tariffs is the administration's sense of national interest, if it kicks in soon enough.

US-China trade needs to improve as much as their bilateral relationship deserves much better, but not at the present rate.

Ukraine thought it had endless Western money and weapons to help it fight Russia, until Trump's White House expressed a desire to make peace.