The two leaders smiled for the cameras while their troops are engaged in the worst border standoff in years.

In an op-ed for Handelsblatt, Putin couches his case for sanctions relief in liberal pieties.

Especially in Orthodox-majority countries.

Courting India seems to be a key priority for the new government in Seoul.

Modi’s trip to Israel is a big bilateral breakthrough—and a sign that Israel is poised for a new era of diplomatic progress.

With South Korea’s president in town, Trump is escalating with China on multiple fronts.

Oliver Stone’s interviews with Vladimir Putin tell us more about Putin’s admirers than about the Russian President himself.

Congressional efforts to codify sanctions against Moscow are being held up in the House. Score a victory for the Trump Administration, and for the Executive Branch in general.

Like Obama before him, Trump wants flexibility to deal with Russia of his own accord—but Congress is not going to comply.

The Defense Secretary’s speech at Shangri-La convincingly articulated some elements of Trump’s Asia policy—but it was not without its contradictions.