The Philippines, an archipelago of 7,600 islands in Southeast Asia, is the world’s fourth-most vulnerable country when it comes to natural disasters. And a new report by UNICEF Philippines warns that 40-80% of the nation’s water supply could be depleted by 2040 due to typhoons, floods and landslides.
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Rizwan Saeed Sheikh, Pakistan’s new ambassador in Washington, was the focus of our first Ambassador Insider Series of 2025.
US-Malaysian bilateral ties, China’s growing military might, Malaysia’s role in Southeast Asia and the upcoming US elections dominated a July 17 event featuring Datu Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz, Malaysia’s envoy to the United States.
The United Arab Emirates embassy wraps up a video project marking the country’s 50th anniversary and long friendship with the U.S. | China celebrates the upcoming Year of the Dragon and 45 years of diplomatic relations with Washington
Henry Kissinger, who died on Nov. 29, 2023, at age 100, exercised more than 50 years of influence on American foreign policy.
Maintaining Thailand’s friendship with the United States and China is a diplomatic balancing act, says the country's ambassador, Tanee Sangrat,
As the African Union’s envoy to the US, Hilda Suka-Mafudze of Zimbabwe speaks for more people than any other ambassador in Washington.
Ever since Russia began bombing Ukraine four months ago, the 23 million inhabitants of Taiwan have been eyeing the war nervously, worried that Beijing might want to launch its own invasion. Read what Bi-khim Hsiao, Taiwan’s de facto ambassador to the United States, has to say about this growing threat.
Hemmed in between China, the world’s most populous country, and Russia, its largest, is landlocked Mongolia—a former socialist “people’s republic”
The top envoy of one of the world’s smallest countries lashed out at its most powerful—barely a month before a
The Washington Diplomat’s Ambassador Insider Series resumed after a two-year hiatus with our March 30 event featuring Koji Tomita, Japan’s ambassador to the United States—just as the Japanese cherry blossoms bloomed in the nation’s capital.
The current state of US-China relations is the worst since Nixon’s landmark trip to Beijing 50 years ago, says a prominent China scholar.
Join journalists Anna Gawel and Eric Ham for a lively conversation as they break down how China will shape the U.S. election.
A future conflict with China isn’t likely to resemble a traditional military clash. Rather, it will look like the scenario that’s already playing out — a global battle over technology and trade, which could presage a new “cold war.”
Is it too late to turn around U.S.-China relations, which are at their lowest point in history?
