The anointment of a new leader of the Chinese Communist Party has usefully re-focused the world's attention on how China might use its growing economic, military and diplomatic power and influence in the coming years, and how its neighbors, and especially the United States, will respond. A lot is riding on China's decision. The regional and even the international order for the coming decades, and perhaps longer, will depend on which pathway it selects.

• October 29, 2010

Sino-Japanese relations have continued to fester in the wake of a sharp dispute last month over the arrest of a Chinese trawler captain by Japanese authorities in waters near the contested islets of Diaoyu (known as Senkaku in Japan) in the East China Sea. Faced with Chinese retaliation, the Japanese government released the captain, but tensions remain.

• October 29, 2010

Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev on Thursday has ended his official visit to Ukraine.

• October 29, 2010

Kyrgyzstan's Central Election Commission (CEC) will announce the final results of parliamentary elections later this week and the winning parties will start forming a coalition, acting President Roza Otunbayeva said

• October 29, 2010

Former Kyrgyz Prime Minister Feliks Kulov, whose party finished third in this month's parliamentary elections, says the country is not yet ready to make the transition to a parliamentary republic, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports.

• October 28, 2010

Parliaments of Belarus and Tajikistan intend to sign an agreement on cooperation

• October 28, 2010

The United States has welcomed as a "positive" step India's signing of an international convention governing liability in case of nuclear accidents.

• October 28, 2010

One year after the establishment of Europe's first 'macro-region', which brings together 10 countries nested around the Baltic Sea, a number of positive results can already be seen, according to Johannes Hahn, the European commissioner in charge of regional policy.

• October 28, 2010