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Pakistan: the unexpected peace facilitator image

Pakistan: the unexpected peace facilitator

14 April 2026

Pakistan’s success in bringing together high-level officials from Iran and the US deserves to be seen as a massive diplomatic coup for Islamabad, despite the lack of a peace deal, writes Claude Rakisits.

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Diplomacy

Pakistan

War talks’ forbidding path, deadly danger for peacekeepers, Global South’s ‘great insulation’ – Asian Media Report image

War talks’ forbidding path, deadly danger for peacekeepers, Global South’s ‘great insulation’ – Asian Media Report

12 April 2026

In David Armstrong’s Asian media report this week: Iran prefers Vance as lead negotiator, Indonesia’s Lebanon Blue Helmets ‘targeted’, developing countries seek superpower autonomy, Japanese troops join Philippines’ exercises, power centralised in Vietnam, alarming loss of forest cover.

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Diplomacy

Asia (general)

When US leadership loses its sheen image

When US leadership loses its sheen

10 April 2026

A respected annual survey of elite perceptions in Southeast Asia shows that across a range of indicators the standing of the US in the region has weakened, writes Joanne Lin.

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Diplomacy

Asia (general)

Myanmar’s intelligence chiefs: backing into the limelight image

Myanmar’s intelligence chiefs: backing into the limelight

9 April 2026

The elevation of strongman Min Aung Hlaing to Myanmar’s presidency has confirmed the resurgence of the military’s feared and powerful intelligence service, writes Andrew Selth.

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Diplomacy

Myanmar