OPINION

By Tshering Chophel Oh, he the one who is great Oh, he the one who is a myth The one that everyone admires The one that everyone desires The one that cares The one that is rare The one that is selfless The one that is priceless Oh, he the …

By Richard Haass NEW YORK – US President Donald Trump spent much of the last week of October in Asia. He managed to bring about ceasefires on several fronts of a trade war largely of his own making, after imposing tariffs on friends and foes alike. What he did not …

By Madhurima Sarkar-Swaisgood, Prangya Paramita Gupta, Shashwat Avi, Consultant & Sanjay Srivastava The Himalayan arc from Bhutan through Nepal and India into Pakistan has always followed the rhythm of the monsoon. In 2025, that rhythm became deadly. Rain that sustains agriculture and rivers turned destructive, testing the capacity of mountain …

By Shoumitro Chatterjee and Arvind Subramanian WASHINGTON, DC – China’s rising trade surplus is once again causing unease in the United States and Europe. But the real casualties from this new “China Shock” will not be in the West. They will be in the developing world, where hundreds of millions …

By Juan Manuel Santos BOGOTÁ – On my first day in office as Colombia’s president just over 15 years ago, I met with the leaders of four indigenous peoples in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta – the Kogui, Arhuaco, Wiwa, and Kankuamo. As we stood together in the shadow …

By Harold James PRINCETON – In an age of shifting geopolitics, many countries’ strategic planning includes imaginative exercises in weaponizing their positions in the world. While Russia and China have been moderately successful at this game, America’s efforts have already boomeranged back on it. Russia thought energy dependence would force …

By Antara Haldar CAMBRIDGE – When the United Nations emerged from the rubble of two world wars 80 years ago, it represented humanity’s most ambitious attempt ever to turn catastrophe into cooperation. But while the scarred world of 1945 had hope following the Allied victory, that optimism has since curdled. …

By Angela Huyue Zhang LOS ANGELES – After four extensions of the statutory deadline to ban TikTok or force its Chinese owners to divest, US President Donald Trump has now signed an executive order transferring the app to US ownership. The announcement follows years of diplomatic sparring, bureaucratic maneuvering, repeated …

By Tshering Dorji (Mr Bhutan) Whenever I travel abroad and tell people I’m from Bhutan, they often respond with, “The happiest country in the world.” I usually smile and reply, “Allegedly,” with a touch of humor. Today, I invite you to join me on a journey to uncover why Bhutan …

By Curtis J. Milhaupt STANFORD/LOS ANGELES – It is tempting to frame the Sino-American economic rivalry as a clash between engineering doers and lawyerly naysayers, as the Chinese-Canadian analyst Dan Wang does in his new book Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future. But this is a false dichotomy, because …