Since the establishment of relations in 1972, India-Vietnam relations are generally considered one of the most stable in the Asian geopolitical landscape. The two countries have maintained a traditional basis of friendship, moderate economic cooperation, and gradually expanded their defense commitments without creating major strategic problems for other major powers. Compared to hot topics such as the Sino-US rivalry, the Taiwan issue or the South China Sea conflict, India-Vietnam relations have rarely been the focus of international policymakers’ attention. However, this is changing rapidly. China appears to be closely following the development of India-Vietnam relations, particularly in the areas of…
Author: Frank M. Everett
Amid all the chaos Trump has created with his tariffs, the war in Iran, and the declining economy, the topic of Obamacare subsidies has slipped to the bottom of the conversation list in 2026, but the fight is far from over, and Democrats have not forgotten the twenty million Americans who are paying higher premiums or have lost coverage.PoliticusUSA is 100% independent news. Support us by becoming a subscriber.Politico reported:Democrats are also eager to bring the debate back to Congress on the question of how much taxes the wealthy pay, particularly in the wake of Republicans’ 2025 tax cuts.…Democrats also…
On Vesak Day on April 30, Myanmar’s military junta – now transformed into a civilian government under President Min Aung Hlaing, the general who led the 2021 coup – announced a partial reduction in deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s sentence and her transfer from prison to house arrest. Two weeks earlier, on New Year’s Day, deposed President Win Myint was released. The moves followed tightly controlled multi-phase elections in December and January and a political reshuffle that installed Min Aung Hlaing as “civilian” president after shedding his uniform. For some observers, this sequence may suggest the first steps towards…
Southeast Asian leaders have called for an immediate end to conflict in the Middle East and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, as well as the ratification of a common oil-sharing pact within the 11-nation ASEAN bloc. In a statement issued Friday following the 48th ASEAN Summit in Cebu, regional leaders “expressed serious concern over the rapidly evolving situation in the Middle East” and its impacts on “regional and global peace and stability.” “We urged all parties involved to maintain conditions conducive to the full and effective implementation of the ceasefire, exercising maximum restraint, ceasing all hostilities and avoiding…
Donald Trump doesn’t want to see Democrats on the cable news network that serves as his state television. Apparently, Trump especially doesn’t want to see Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), who is one of the two driving forces behind getting the truth for Epstein survivors, along with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY). Khanna is one of those Democrats who doesn’t hesitate to appear on Fox News, which he did again on Sunday, but what the California congressman said deeply triggered Trump.You might think Khanna said something about the Epstein files to get Trump going, but that wasn’t the case. The California congressman,…
The Supreme Court Majority’s Hypocrisy Regarding Congressional Districts and Gerrymandering has not gone unnoticed by elected officials and voters. The same Supreme Court majority had previously ruled that majority-minority districts were constitutional, but later ruled that districts drawn on the basis of race were not constitutional.PoliticusUSA brings unfiltered news and opinions straight to you. Support our work by becoming a subscriber.The question that arises after the decision on Article 2 of the Voting Rights Act is: what are we going to do about it?Senator Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) highlighted the problem on NBC’s Meet The Press:Remember, a corrupt shadow hangs…
When politicians from both parties think about elections, they often don’t think of voters as people. Voters can be divided into groups candidates want to appeal to or numbers in a poll, but too many political actors don’t view voters as human beings. One of the elements that was ignored in the 2026 gerrymandering arms race, Particularly in hastily redrawn maps in already heavily cherry-picked red states, is that these “numbers” that are moved from district to district are human beings voting in elections, and human behavior combined with math can create unintended consequences.For example, Texas Republicans thought they would…
Remember the good old days of last month, when Trump’s ballroom at the White House was it privately financed and without using taxpayer money, at least according to Trump? Then a gunman showed up at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and Trump decided it would be the perfect time to ask taxpayers to pay $1 billion for his ballroom under the guise of national security, which Republicans redefined to mean protecting our unpopular president by no longer allowing him to go out in public. So taxpayers have to build him a cheesy, gold-trimmed playroom in what used to be the…
As intensifying Sino-US competition reshapes global supply chains, Malaysia is finding it increasingly difficult to stay on the sidelines. A recent rare earths deal between Australian company Lynas Corporation and the US Department of Defense has sparked domestic backlash, highlighting the extent to which middle powers like Malaysia are drawn into strategic – and potentially military-linked – economic networks. Previously, a coalition of 57 Malaysian civil society organizations issued a joint memorandum opposing the approximately $96 million rare earth supply deal between Lynas and the US Department of Defense. The groups warned the deal could directly link Malaysia’s rare earth…
On May 1, cybersecurity researchers at Trend Micro disclosed a previously undocumented China-aligned espionage campaign that has infiltrated government and defense networks across much of Asia. Spotted as Shadow-Earth-053, the operation has been active since at least December 2024 and has targeted ministries and contractors in Pakistan, Thailand, Malaysia, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Taiwan, as well as European NATO member Poland, as well as journalists and activists in the diaspora. What sets this apart campaign What distinguishes most other China-aligned cyber operations is its dual focus: one track continues traditional intelligence collection against Asian governments and defense entities, while…