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From Hormuz to Suez, the Middle East and North Africa are watching the Trump-Xi summit for the price of stability. The region wants open shipping lanes, lower U.S.-Iran tensions, protected Red Sea routes, stable energy prices, and room to work with both Washington and Beijing without becoming a bargaining table.

Japan and South Korea are watching the Trump-Xi summit through four linked concerns: Taiwan, North Korea, Hormuz, and the future of America’s alliance system in the Indo-Pacific. For Tokyo and Seoul, the issue is not only whether Washington and Beijing can stabilize relations, but whether that stability comes at the expense of allied confidence.

Trump’s expected summit with Xi places Taiwan, Iran, Hormuz, trade and technology at the center of the world’s most consequential power relationship.

NY-12’s Democratic primary is local, but its foreign policy stakes are global. From Israel and Gaza to Ukraine, China, Iran, and the U.N. and campaign money, the district deserves more than slogans from the candidates who are asking to represent it.

China opened its May Security Council presidency with a push to defend the U.N. Charter while placing Gaza, Iran, Hormuz, Lebanon, Africa, and the next Secretary-General race at the center of a crowded Council agenda.

On World Press Freedom Day, the issue in MENA is no longer only whether journalists can publish, but whether they can still reach audiences, verify facts, and remain visible in a digital public sphere shaped by pressure, fear, and restriction.

At an Oman-hosted NPT side event, Arab diplomats and U.N. officials warned that the long-stalled Middle East WMD-Free Zone remains a central test of the treaty’s credibility and the unfinished 1995 bargain.

Kazakhstan marked 20 years of the Central Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone at the U.N., presenting Semipalatinsk as proof that regional nuclear restraint can work. But the discussion quickly turned to the harder question: whether any of its lessons can apply to the stalled Middle East WMD-free zone.

The Security Council warned that rising threats to the Strait of Hormuz and other key waterways are testing the world’s ability to protect global trade, energy flows and freedom of navigation.

The 2026 NPT Review Conference opened at the United Nations with warnings over rising nuclear risks and an immediate clash over Iran’s leadership role, exposing the strain behind the treaty’s consensus tradition.