China and the Long Game on Climate
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Understanding the weaknesses of South Korea’s democracy requires looking to the country’s authoritarian past.
Far from inheriting an opportunity, China finds itself encumbered with an ever-expanding roster of problems in Afghanistan, which it is showing little interest in trying to resolve or own.
Despite Anwar Ibrahim’s ultimate victory at the head of a progressive, multi-ethnic coalition, the space for more pluralistic politics in Malaysia is closing.
November saw a surge of speculation that China is nearing an end to “zero COVID.” But it wasn’t enough to prevent rare mass protests from breaking out.
In many ways, the election results maintained the status quo of pan-Blue dominance over local politics, rather than a dramatic return to form for the KMT.
A multi-year effort has brought strongman rule back into the Communist Party liturgy.
In the streets, on banners, in cyberspace, collectively, and individually – people in China are speaking out.
Allegations of election interference are the latest issue to sour Canada on Beijing.
Tokyo has several reasons to be relieved by the results of the midterm elections in the United States.
Has the time finally arrived to confirm that the KIC is a dead project or does it have a future?
While the whole world is talking about Chancellor Scholz’s controversial visit to China, Germany’s ties with Japan are growing quietly but significantly.
After a series of gaffes on its last round of international trips, the Yoon administration seems to have hit its diplomatic stride at the ASEAN and G-20 summits.
In their recent trilateral summit, Seoul, Washington, and Tokyo reaffirmed their joint commitment, but no new measure to renew the stalled dialogue were announced.
The regressive practice has no scientific validity but continues to be used by a patriarchal criminal justice system to malign rape survivors.
The FATF’s decision will improve Pakistan’s reputation and boost its capability to borrow.
Far from demanding accountability from Qatar, South Asian governments have often been mute spectators to the plight of workers and their families at home.
Evidence suggests that ISKP’s tentacles have begun spreading across West, Central, and South Asia.
Tourist numbers are rebounding after the worst of the financial crisis, but are still nowhere near government aspirations.
The COVID-19 pandemic served as a convenient pretext to jail union activists, and that has lasting implications.
As the bloc’s chair in 2023, Indonesia will attempt to succeed where both Cambodia and Brunei have failed.
The region today resembles less the rigid binaries of the Cold War than the fluid loyalties and interactions of the pre-colonial era.
As has been the case for much of history, stable, manageable relations with China form the foundation of the country’s foreign policy.
Once mostly immune from the country’s post-coup turmoils, Rakhine State is once again beset by growing conflict.
If the United States wants to be an alternative partner to Russia and China for Central Asia, all it needs to do is ignore the elephant in the room.
If Kazakhstan wants long-term economic growth, it needs economic and political constraints and counterweights.
Despite domestic opposition in Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek and Tashkent are moving ahead with their agreements on the Kempir-Abad reservoir.
In recent years, the EU has shifted how it views Central Asia. That effort culminated recently with the first EU-Central Asia leaders summit.
As certain as his re-election may be, Kazakhstan’s leader faces a pressing array of domestic and international challenges.
After 15 years of strident diplomacy, Pacific Island states have moved the world closer to a serious effort to compensate countries for the devastating effects of climate change.
The murder of 15-year-old Cassius Turvey is not just a tragedy; “sadly, it is a pattern.”
As other liberal democracies lock down supplies, Australia’s lithium exports are an increasingly critical economic component of the Australia-China relationship.
The gap between how human rights groups view incarcerated people, and how governments in Australia view them, continues to be wide.
The much-hailed in-person meeting didn’t come with any deliverables.
We should be talking more about the bill’s Taiwan Fellowship Program, which could reshape Taiwan-U.S. ties over the long term.
The U.S. not only needs India in the Indo-Pacific, but would also like India to play a larger role in South, Central, and Southeast Asia.
Japan is updating its National Security Strategy, National Defense Program Guidelines, and Medium-Term Defense Program at the same time.
Xi Jinping’s drive to reform Chinese defense science and technology institutes has stagnated.
North Korea seems to have purposefully launched an obsolete, low-value missile into waters close to South Korea.
As China finishes its own space station, India should look to international partners to take its space program to the next level.
Dinesh D’Souza’s apologetic stance on colonialism calls for a rebuttal.
A Constitutional Court ruling held that Pingpu peoples must be recognized by the government, a move that could potentially triple the registered Indigenous population in Taiwan.
The critically acclaimed film depicts transgender people as normal – something unacceptable in Pakistani society, which has traditionally treated transgender people as outcasts.