In the closing weeks of 2025, President Donald Trump gave a prime-time speech on affordability and launched a swing-state rally tour that his advisers said would show voters his focus on domestic concerns - a messaging push intended to ramp up at the start of the year.

This time around, it is more aggressive, more unpredictable and more willing to accept the risk of domestic and global backlash. It all points to a White House eager to rewrite the rules of U.S. power and reassert American dominance in the Western Hemisphere.

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung has exceeded expectations in 2025 by stabilising foreign relations and securing pragmatic gains with the United States, China and Japan after a period of domestic crisis.

India is likely to face a year in which the lines between foreign policy, domestic politics and the economy become increasingly blurred, making it harder for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to offset diplomatic setbacks with domestic successes, according to an analysis by Chatham House.

Cyprus is “the most important element of Greek foreign policy”, Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis said on Friday.Addressing his country’s parliament, he said that the island constitutes “the immediate and major priority of our national foreign policy” and that it “will never be abandoned”.

It will become increasingly hard for the Modi government to offset foreign policy setbacks with domestic successes as the full impact of US tariffs starts to bite.