On June 14–15, 2026, Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi visited London and Rome signed a range of agreements on defense, clean energy, and technology with her British and Italian counterparts. The biggest news to supply chain watchers was a pair of memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed by Rapidus — Japan's state-backed advanced semiconductor foundry — with the UK Semiconductor Centre and Italy's Chips-IT.

Japan and South Korea do not have a military alliance akin to NATO. Nonetheless, a Japan-South Korea Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement, or ACSA, would prove valuable in a period of crisis. It is most appropriate to understand ACSA as an agreement on logistics. It enables the two militaries to provide materials and services to one another in accordance with agreed conditions. Such support may include fuel, food, transportation, maintenance, medical support, communications support, repair services, and non-combatant assistance.

Pakistan is not a party to the U.S.–Iran confrontation, yet it is already paying one of its heaviest economic prices. The oil shock was merely the trigger. Pakistan's structural dependence on Hormuz-transiting petroleum supplied the mechanism through which a geopolitical confrontation it did not initiate became a domestic emergency it cannot easily resolve.

The conflicts erupting across Turkey's neighborhood are doing more than reshaping political maps. They are quietly redrawing the region's energy geography, forcing countries to reroute pipelines, seek alternative corridors, and settle for less efficient solutions.

Today, the United States and its allies in East Asia often implicitly assume that a Taiwan contingency could be managed as the primary theater, while the Korean Peninsula could be dealt with as a secondary matter. This assumption, however, is increasingly difficult to sustain.

The redeployment of U.S. missile defense assets, including Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) batteries and Patriot systems from South Korea to the Middle East has triggered understandable concern in Seoul.

Küresel güç dengelerinin yeniden şekillendiği bir dönemden geçmekteyiz. Asya ülkelerinin güçlü ekonomik performansı nedeniyle dünyanın ağırlık merkezi Batı’dan Doğu’ya doğru kaymaktadır. Özellikle Çin’in hızlı yükselişi yeniden çok kutuplu bir dünyanın oluşmaya başladığına işaret etmektedir.

Most of the Russian propaganda in Turkey is not overtly conducted by Russian state-affiliated media outlets. Eurasianists in Turkey carry out the Kremlin’s bidding to influence Turkish public opinion in favor of Russian war efforts. They blame the West, specifically NATO and the US, for instigating the war in Ukraine and causing regional instability. They also attack Turkey's political opposition for their milder views on NATO and the US and recommend that the Turkish government prioritize its relations with Russia.