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The northeast Indian state of Assam, which is due to vote in state assembly elections over three days in March-April, is witnessing a...
India’s relations with Europe tend to focus on the Old Continent’s western side – and for good reasons. France has emerged as a significant...
On March 1, 2020, the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines arrived in the Philippines – for many, representing the long-awaited the light at the end...
Almost 10 months after the standoff between the India and China erupted along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh, troops and...
In a recent letter to Afghan leaders, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged an acceleration of peace talks, but leaves open the possibility...
According to an Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) statement, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi will virtually inaugurate a new bridge...
After a three-day negotiation in Washington, South Korea and the United States have finally concluded their Special Measures Agreement (SMA) talks,...
On March 8, 2020 – a year ago today – Bangladesh reported its first case of COVID-19. At the time, more than 105,000 cases of the disease had...
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed social inequities worldwide, including in the administration of vaccines. Indonesia, however, stands out for a...
Recent Indian media reports suggest U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin could visit New Delhi at point in the course of the month. The Print...
Later this year, the HMS Queen Elizabeth, the new Royal Navy aircraft carrier, will undertake its maiden deployment to the Asia-Pacific region. It...
Almost eight years have passed, and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) still remains a mystery, raising much global furor. Is China too difficult...
As India imposed one of the world’s strictest lockdowns a year ago, ordering 1.34 billion people to stay at home for months, thousands of migrant...
The annual session of China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) opened on March 5, with Premier Li Keqiang delivering the government work report to...
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed media reports that a summit of Quad leaders, the first of its kind, could be held, though...
Philippines Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra admitted to the United Nations last week that police did not properly examine many weapons used in...
In a “Message to the Force” on March 4, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin outlined his three priorities, the first one of which, quite...
A new Gallup poll conducted in the United States revealed that favorability ratings of China dropped to a record low of 20 percent in 2021, sliding...
Peng Sovannarin, the law enforcement coordinator at the international NGO Conservation International, has spent decades patrolling the rainforests...
The new president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee has begun holding weekly news conferences hoping to win over a doubting Japanese public...
Myanmar’s security forces have killed scores of demonstrators protesting a coup. The new junta has jailed journalists — and anyone else capable...
This week has been a tragic time for two places that once gave the world hope and inspiration: Myanmar and Hong Kong. February 28 saw (to that...
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is considering introducing a digital COVID-19 vaccine certificate as a means of reviving the...
This article is the second in a two-part series. Part 1 is available here. When Nguyen Phu Trong assumed Vietnam’s presidency following the death...
In November 2020, the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (the Quad) — an informal security pact between the United States, Japan, Australia, and...
The U.S. government has introduced new trade restrictions against Myanmar’s military government, in response to its escalating violence against...
Fans of “freedom fries” and Australian “freedom wine,” rejoice: There’s a new addition to the table. The United States and Canada are among...
Last week, Radio Free Asia reported that UNESCO has requested an assessment for a planned hydropower dam close to the town of Luang Prabang,...
Facebook has taken down 185 accounts and groups engaged in coordinated information operations on behalf of the Thai military, the tech behemoth...
Shortly after seizing power on February 1, the Myanmar military, or Tatmadaw, immediately reconfigured the committee tasked with negotiating an end...
Lithuania plans to open a representative’s office in Taiwan, a government spokesperson told Reuters this week, a further sign that China’s...
“It’s a world of lawlessness,” Rev. Kim Dal-sung muttered over the phone as he drove his tiny KIA over narrow dirt paths zigzagging through...
K-pop fans from around the world reacted in horror over the weekend as thousands of songs from dozens of Korean artists suddenly disappeared from...
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has decided to take a vote of confidence from the parliament after his finance minister, Hafeez Shaikh, lost...
A new Pew Research Center survey shows that a significant majority of Americans prefer the U.S. adopting a robust approach toward China. The...
Yesterday, University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto announced the immediate closing of the university’s Confucius Institute . The proximate...
North Korea may be trying to extract plutonium to make more nuclear weapons at its main atomic complex, recent satellite photos indicated, weeks...
During the Trump presidency, the relationship between the United States and China spiraled into such a fierce rivalry that some pundits began...
In August 2018, seated behind a large desk and looking straight into the camera for his inaugural address, Prime Minister Imran Khan declared that...
First there was “mask diplomacy” and now there’s “vaccine diplomacy.” In the context of Central Asia, vaccine diplomacy is a hot topic,...
Myanmar security forces were seen firing slingshots at protesters, chasing them down, and even brutally beating an ambulance crew in video showing...
Renowned Pakistani televangelist, Islamic scholar, and member of the National Assembly Aamir Liaquat Husain last week took a jab against Pakistan...
The Biden administration released a significant document on March 3 that lays out the contours of U.S. foreign policy over the next four years. The...
The Myanmar protest movement against the military coup that overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratic government has intensified since early...
The National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) will hold its annual meeting starting on March 3, one of...
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the killing of three women working for a local radio and TV station in eastern Afghanistan,...
Kyrgyzstan has notched the depressing accolade as the country with the greatest decline in Freedom House’s Freedom in the World 2021 report,...
The Indian Air Force is, for the first time, participating in an annual multinational air exercise hosted by the United Arab Emirates. In a...
Since Joe Biden became the 46th president of the United States on January 20, there has been a real risk that his policies would be weighed –...
India’s fabled young demographics were meant to put the country on the path to power and prosperity in the decades ahead. But some shocking new...
The head of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant says there’s no need to extend the current target to finish its decommissioning in 30-40 years...
The United States is not happy that a Kyrgyz court this week decided to release Kamchybek Kolbaev from pretrial detention. In a statement on March...
On February 1, the Myanmar military launched a coup d’etat, arresting leading politicians including State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi and...
The tragic death of 39 Vietnamese citizens in a frozen shipping container in Essex, England in October 2019 awoke the world to the extent of the...
In a virtual address to the Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association TechNet Indo-Pacific Conference on March 1, U.S. Indo-Pacific...
“America is not prepared to defend or compete in the AI era.” The introduction to the final report of the National Security Commission on...
Those expecting to be disappointed by the outcome of yesterday’s Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) informal meeting on Myanmar had...
As the unrest in Myanmar has intensified in the month since the military’s seizure of power, the crisis is also playing out in the quiet,...
Cryptocurrency is enjoying its second nationwide boom in South Korea since 2018. This March, users of the two largest cryptocurrency apps tripled...
As developing countries around the world scramble to secure enough COVID-19 vaccines to inoculate their own citizens, vulnerable refugee...
Ships carrying Australian coal stranded off the coast of China have become an apt symbol of the recent deterioration in relations between the two...
At the start of February, Myanmar’s powerful military declared a state of emergency after toppling the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi and...
According to the latest Military Balance report, global defense spending for 2020 stood at $1.83 trillion, an increase of 3.9 percent in real...