A new global survey has found that China is viewed more favourably than the US in most countries surveyed, the first such reversal in nearly two decades. There was a time a single Oval Office visit from Benjamin Netanyahu could bend American policy. That era may be over. The Ukraine war has just crossed a line few saw coming. For years, this conflict was drawn on a map of Europe: trenches, cities, borders. Now it has spilled into one of the world’s most overlooked strategic waterways: the Caspian Sea. The Korean nuclear crisis is back in the spotlight. North Korea has flatly rejected ASEAN’s latest demand to abandon its nuclear weapons programme, calling the appeal a “Foolish attempt.”
