Haiti's rescue is being run from abroad
A foreign-led Gang Suppression Force replaced the Kenyan police mission as Washington backed the unelected prime minister and the Dominican Republic walled Haitians out.
Rolling country refreshes covering the latest 90 days of changes plus score and ranking movement.
A foreign-led Gang Suppression Force replaced the Kenyan police mission as Washington backed the unelected prime minister and the Dominican Republic walled Haitians out.
Prime Minister Anutin tore up a maritime pact with Cambodia and deepened defense ties with China, even as a U.S. trade deal kept Washington in play.
Madrid shut its bases and airspace to the U.S. war on Iran and absorbed a Pentagon threat to suspend it from NATO rather than back an operation it calls illegal.
Milei tied Argentina openly to the US and Israel during the Iran war, cut ties with Tehran, and signed the Isaac Accords in Jerusalem while keeping China at arm's length.
A French defense thaw, fresh gas deals with Italy and Spain, and a Niger partnership all advanced this spring while the rupture with Bamako only hardened.
Canberra locked in frigates from Japan, a security expansion with Indonesia, and a trade deal with Europe even as the United States pressed it to spend more and accept used submarines under AUKUS.
Abuja absorbed Washington's intervention threat over Christian killings and came out with joint strikes, U.S. trainers on its soil, and a London reset on the side.
A run of state visits from Beijing, Seoul, Tokyo, and New Delhi confirmed Hanoi as Asia's must-court capital, even as the trade terms with Washington stayed unsettled.
An American oil cutoff drove Cuba into nationwide blackouts and back into the arms of Russia and China, while Mexico, Spain, and Brazil broke with Washington to send aid and Ecuador broke the other way.
South Africa refused Washington's demands on Iran and the Israel genocide case while sending a white Afrikaner negotiator to repair the worst US relationship since apartheid.
A decapitation strike on Iran's leadership left Israel militarily dominant across the region while pushing Europe, Turkey, and the Saudi normalization prize further out of reach.
Squeezed by Trump's Greenland tariffs and Russia's Arctic pressure, Oslo doubled down on Nordic unity, Ukraine funding, and a NATO presence in the High North.
Belgrade ran its first joint drill with NATO, then flew straight to Beijing for an "iron friendship" ceremony, while Washington-imposed sanctions on the Russian-owned oil firm finally squeezed Moscow out of NIS and the streets refused to clear.
An Iran war on the eastern horizon, a Sudan war on the southern border, and a brittle Gaza ceasefire all pushed Sisi to convert Egypt's only growth industry, diplomacy, into hard cover for the economy.
Keir Starmer spent the spring holding the line on Russia and Ukraine, refusing then partly granting Trump's request to launch Iran strikes from British bases, and signing the deals that hedge against an unreliable America.
A new Iran war, an unwelcome trade deal forced through Brussels, and a sharper French nuclear doctrine all landed in one spring, leaving Macron to organize a continental response without looking like Washington's deputy.
Lee Jae-myung's government wrote the $350 billion U.S. investment pledge into law, accepted a faster handover of wartime command, and quietly began calling North Korea by the name it prefers.
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.
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.
Sheinbaum has spent the spring buying time on tariffs, conceding on cartels and Chinese investment, and looking elsewhere for political oxygen.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.