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The Cambodia-Thailand Conflict: Can China’s Influence Tip the Scales?
Given Thailand and Cambodia’s close ties with China, it is necessary to assess how Beijing views the conflict and how its influence could shape the outcome.
Hong Kong Fire: Can the Government Keep Its People Safe?
The fire has stirred emotions that will not be easily contained.
Pakistan’s IMF Program is Buying Time. Markets Want To Know What Comes Next.
Pakistan has stabilized under the latest IMF program. But can it break the crisis-bailout cycle once and for all?
Understanding China’s Controversy Over Sealing Petty Offense Records
Setting aside the conspiracy theories, the controversy exposes flaws in the legislature’s mechanisms for consulting and informing the public.
Modi’s Pick for BJP Chief Is Little-Known Nitin Nabin
The appointment follows a recent trend of the Modi-Shah duo opting for low-profile leaders for key posts.
A Moment of Reckoning for Australia at Bondi Beach
An effort needs to be made to comprehend and counteract the political ideas, narratives, and movements that work like acid to erode social trust and encourage hate, division, and this week’s horrific violence.
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What’s Really Changed in ‘New Uzbekistan’?
Since the 2016 death of the country’s first president, Islam Karimov, his successor, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, has strived to present himself as a reformer forging a “New Uzbekistan."
Japan’s Grim Demographic Reality
Can an anti-immigration turn really be compatible with a ‘Japan is Back’ narrative?
Why China Can’t Make Gwadar Work – Even After Billions Spent
Gwadar port has often been touted as CPEC’s “crown jewel.” Yet almost two decades after the port began operations, business has been lackluster.
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China Power
A New World Order
Hong Kong Fire: Can the Government Keep Its People Safe?
The fire has stirred emotions that will not be easily contained.
Understanding China’s Controversy Over Sealing Petty Offense Records
Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Publisher Convicted of Sedition in Major Blow to Press Freedom
China’s 2025 White Paper on Latin America Sets the Stage for Renewed Competition With the US
Flashpoints
Diplomacy by Other Means
The Cambodia-Thailand Conflict: Can China’s Influence Tip the Scales?
Given Thailand and Cambodia’s close ties with China, it is necessary to assess how Beijing views the conflict and how its influence could shape the outcome.
What the Disappearance of the ‘One China’ Policy From Trump’s 2025 NSS Means for Taiwan
Should China Be Reassured by Trump’s National Security Strategy?
France and Mauritius: Strengthening Ties in the Indian Ocean
Asia Defense
Militaries of the Asia-Pacific
China Bets on Unmanned Stealth Bombers
China’s focus on advanced UAVs offers critical insights into the People’s Liberation Army Air Force’s future airpower strategy.
100 Ships at Sea: Strategic Observations on the Chinese Navy’s 2025 Winter Exercises
Putin and Modi Affirm Russia-India Defense Relations
Breaking the North Korea-Russia Missile Axis
ASEAN Beat
Insights Into Half a Billion
Malaysia Postpones Special ASEAN Meeting on Thailand-Cambodia Conflict
The move came as China's government urged both nations to exercise "utmost restraint” and de-escalate tensions.
Thailand Schedules Snap General Election For February 8
The Sabah Duopoly and the Autonomy Ultimatum in East Malaysia
Philippines Claims Three Fishermen Injured in Skirmish With Chinese Coast Guard
The Pulse
Perspectives on South Asia
Modi’s Pick for BJP Chief Is Little-Known Nitin Nabin
The appointment follows a recent trend of the Modi-Shah duo opting for low-profile leaders for key posts.
Turbulence Hits Indian Skies
US Weapons Left Behind in Afghanistan Are Fueling Militancy in Pakistan
What Trump’s New National Security Strategy Means for India
The Koreas
Divided Peninsula
What to Make of North Korea’s End-of-Year Party Plenum
The plenum served as a primer for the bigger party congress that is yet to come.
North Korea Kicks off Workers’ Party Plenary Meeting
South Korea’s Unification Minister Is Not Happy With DMZ Administration
Lee Jae-myung’s Latest Policy Signals to North Korea
Tokyo Report
News From Japan
Will Japan’s First Woman Prime Minister Finally Tackle Violence Against Women?
How Takaichi's government addresses the implementation gap for existing laws will define whether her historic appointment translates into substantive progress for women's safety.
The Takaichi Factor: Recalibrating the India-Japan Strategic Equation
Japan Reacts to the New US National Security Strategy
What a China-US Detente Mean for Japanese Foreign Policy
The Debate
Comment and Opinion
Dictators Don’t Take Holidays
Myanmar's generals are counting on Western governments overlooking the sham election that they have scheduled for December 28.
In Asia, Political Power Is for Sale. Can Global Action Finally Rein It in?
Myanmar Photojournalist Sai Zaw Should Be Able to Report Freely. He Should Not Be In Prison.
What Afghanistan Taught Us — And Why Libya May Be Lost If the Lesson Is Ignored
Crossroads Asia
The New Silk Road
The Slow Transformation of Kazakhstan’s Independence Day
Thirty-nine years after the protests that helped pave the way for Kazakhstan’s independence, the way the day is commemorated is quietly changing.
Even as US Travel Bans Expand, Turkmenistan Gets Good News
Why Japan’s Economic Security Strategy Depends on a Deeper Pivot to Central Asia
Land Degradation and Tajikistan’s Food Security Crisis
Trans-Pacific View
U.S. Policy on Asia
The US National Security Strategy: A Sobering Reality Check for South Asia
The paradoxical and selective U.S. posture of simultaneous disengagement and selective involvement evident in the new NSS could be particularly concerning for India.
America’s Pharmaceutical Dependence on China Is a National Security Crisis
Trump 2.0 Southeast Asia Strategy Tests Agency Beyond the US-China Prism
Allowing Nvidia to Sell H200 Chips to China Is a Mistake
Pacific Money
Economy And Business
Pakistan’s IMF Program is Buying Time. Markets Want To Know What Comes Next.
Pakistan has stabilized under the latest IMF program. But can it break the crisis-bailout cycle once and for all?
Why Indonesia Cancelled the Early Retirement of the Cirebon-1 Power Plant
China’s Fiscal Winter Is Freezing Out Local Businesses
Indonesia-US Trade Agreement at Risk of Collapse, Report Claims
Oceania
The South Pacific
A Moment of Reckoning for Australia at Bondi Beach
An effort needs to be made to comprehend and counteract the political ideas, narratives, and movements that work like acid to erode social trust and encourage hate, division, and this week’s horrific violence.
National Cabinet Agrees to Sweeping Overhaul of Australia’s Gun Laws in Response to Bondi Massacre
Australia: Regionalism as a Nexus to Great Power Politics
Bondi Shooting: Could Australia’s Worst Terrorist Attack on Home Soil Have Been Prevented?
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What’s Really Changed in ‘New Uzbekistan’?
Since the 2016 death of the country’s first president, Islam Karimov, his successor, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, has strived to present himself as a reformer forging a “New Uzbekistan."
Why China Can’t Make Gwadar Work – Even After Billions Spent
How Southeast Asia Became the Scam Capital of the World
Inside China’s Rare Earth Empire: The Hidden Costs in Myanmar
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Asia Geopolitics
Dissecting Trump’s Remarkably Odd US National Security Strategy
Half as long as his previous administration’s NSS, Trump’s newly revealed strategy is perhaps the clearest (though still confusing) outline of the U.S. president’s worldview.
