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Rolling country refreshes covering the latest 90 days of changes plus score and ranking movement.

Total11LatestMay 20, 2026
PAKPakistan
#26
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Pakistan trades pariah card for the mediator's seat

After US-Israeli strikes on Iran in late February, Islamabad became Washington's back-channel of choice while opening its own war on Afghanistan and embedding troops in Saudi Arabia.

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TWNTaiwan
#17
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Taiwan buys time while the great powers haggle over its head

Lai paid for Washington's silence with chips and arms orders, watched Xi host his domestic opposition, and forced a state visit to Africa through three closed airspaces.

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MEXMexico
#25
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Sheinbaum concedes everywhere except sovereignty to keep USMCA alive

Sheinbaum has spent the spring buying time on tariffs, conceding on cartels and Chinese investment, and looking elsewhere for political oxygen.

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COGCongo
#137
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Sassou Nguesso opens fifth term by leaning harder on Moscow

After a 94.82 percent re-election under an internet blackout, Sassou Nguesso made Moscow his first foreign stop, advanced a Russian-led pipeline, and returned to IMF talks as debt pressure tightened.

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DNKDenmark
#35
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Denmark's Arctic gamble survives Trump but breaks its government

Standing up to Washington on Greenland made Mette Frederiksen a hero abroad and a casualty at home, and now a Liberal defence minister inherits the realm she fought to protect.

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LAOLaos
#154
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Laos diversifies its patrons while still leaning on Beijing for debt relief

Over roughly 90 days, Laos used a flagship power link and a Party Congress to renew its pact with China, broke ground on a rail and road corridor to Vietnam, and sent its president to Moscow for Victory Day, all while a US aid freeze and a creeping scam-economy kept Laos's room to maneuver thin.

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IDNIndonesia
#23
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Indonesia signs a trade deal with Washington and a security pact with Canberra while still flying to Moscow

In roughly 90 days, Indonesia locked in a landmark trade agreement with the United States, a new security treaty with Australia, and a deepening defense tie with France -- all without breaking off its hedging relationship with Russia or China.

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RUSRussia
#4
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Russia rides the Iran war windfall while its Ukraine endgame stalls

An oil-price boom from the Iran crisis is bankrolling the Kremlin even as a US-brokered Ukraine ceasefire wobbles, a new defense pact binds Pyongyang closer, and Russia's grip on the Sahel slips.

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BRABrazil
#11
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Lula resets with Trump while doubling down on the Global South

A May 7 White House meeting capped a 90-day stretch in which Brazil ratified the EU trade deal, signed a critical-minerals pact with India, condemned the US war on Iran and feuded with Argentina's Milei.

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DEUGermany
#8
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Berlin breaks publicly with Washington as Iran war drags on

Chancellor Friedrich Merz's escalating criticism of Trump's Iran campaign triggered a 5,000-troop US drawdown, while Germany sealed a €4 billion strategic pact with Ukraine and welcomed the end of Orbán's Hungary.

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CANCanada
#13
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Carney consolidates a majority and locks in the post-American pivot

Three byelection sweeps gave Mark Carney a Liberal majority on April 13, 2026, capping a ninety-day stretch in which Ottawa signed strategic partnerships with India, Japan, and Australia, joined the EU's SAFE rearmament fund, and finally cleared NATO's two-percent defence spending bar.

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