Asia and the ‘Global War on Terror’
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Imran Khan is unlikely to lose the army’s support anytime soon.
The 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty became the most important element in the Philippine-U.S. alliance. How can it remain relevant in a changing Indo-Pacific?
The Soviet legacy in Central Asia’s water and energy infrastructure is complex, weaving together conflict and cooperation.
Between Myanmar and Afghanistan, China could soon have two failed states on its borders.
A wave of new partners are demonstrating their interests in the waterway, which China claims nearly all of.
To understand China’s crackdown on religion, we need to look beyond the repression of any single faith.
Beijing’s vaccines are just one aspect of its increased presence in the region. It’s time for Washington to start paying attention.
The latest hearings wrapped up on August 18 in a case that has attracted international attention and torpedoed Canada-China relations.
The evacuation effort in Afghanistan is one of the riskiest overseas operations ever undertaken by the SDF. It also reveals the limitations of Japan’s armed forces.
The real estate bubble in Seoul is intrinsically tied up with the social structure of modern South Korea. That’s why every administration to date has failed to solve the issue.
The country is looking to ramp up vaccine production – for COVID-19 and beyond.
Mutual distrust has doomed past efforts to settle a deal between the U.S. and North Korea.
The highly-controversial and expensive Tokyo Olympic Games stirred up mixed emotions among Japanese.
The Taliban’s capture of Kabul will revive memories in India of their role in enabling anti-India terrorists.
Pakistan’s campaign to pitch the Taliban as the only answer to Afghanistan’s political and security woes is gaining support.
Sher Bahadur Deuba faces a herculean task in managing fragile politics.
The expected arc of a woman’s life in Pakistan is living in her parents’ home and then that of her husband. But more women are striking out alone, seeking independence.
Baradar appears as a moderate today but as part of the Taliban regime in the 1996-2001 period, he participated in horrific massacres.
An investigation by the news site Malaysiakini suggests that social media poses a bigger challenge than active Chinese influence operations.
Through a variety of measures, Beijing is seeking to reinforce Vietnam’s neutrality in the competition between the superpowers.
The Philippine president’s barnstorming run to the presidency has inspired a raft of imitators. Can any succeed?
The current COVID-19 outbreak has exacerbated the country’s already wide gap between rich and poor.
The country passes a grim milestone with no clear solution to its political crisis in sight.
Uzbekistan is struggling with a coherent approach to those fleeing Afghanistan.
Presidential meetings in Central Asia are often dismissed for a lack of concrete results and for their exclusively ceremonial character. But there are good reasons to take the latest meeting seriously.
The plight of Kazakhs detained in Xinjiang’s “re-education” camps has not gained widespread public support among ethnic Kazakhs in Kazakhstan.
The World Bank approved a COVID-19 loan for Turkmenistan, despite journalists reporting on the pandemic there being thrown in jail.
Kyrgyzstan’s first president admitted to making mistakes regarding the mine.
Opposition to Australia’s strict lockdowns may be a political opportunity for some ahead of the federal election due by May 2022.
Ardern said it was clear that the immigration laws of the 1970s were designed to specifically target Pasifika people, indigenous peoples of the Pacific Islands.
Australia’s initial successes against the virus may have rendered it complacent, impacting its vaccination campaign.
A Senate Committee has highlighted the need for Australia’s funding of foreign policy research to keep pace with the region’s shifting strategic climate.
Kamala Harris’ trip to the region was supposed to showcase U.S. commitment, but the fall of Kabul derailed that messaging.
Improved U.S. compliance with international norms would greatly enhance U.S. defense of the rules-based international order.
The war in Vietnam showed the abject failure of nation-building – and the imperial logic behind such efforts. But the U.S. repeated its mistake in Afghanistan.
Institutions need not only to secure themselves against threats, but to be seen to have secured themselves against threats. The result is “security theater.”
Taipei has been quietly working on a conventional deterrent that lacks much of the nuclear option’s controversy.
Melting sea ice in the Arctic increases accessibility between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans and mitigates a geographic disadvantage for the U.S. Navy.
Despite the killing or apprehension of many of its senior leaders, the Islamic State remains a clear and present danger in Southeast Asia.
The Indian image of Afghans has been built on a mixture of past cultural interactions and bloody conflicts.
Indian movies, the artistic escape of a billion people, are controlled by the government cheerleaders and dour moralists of the Censor Board.
The boy band elimination show promotes the image of China as a culturally influential and friendly country – a key goal of the Chinese Dream.