Will the dream of indigenous technology be co-opted for political control?

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Rapid geopolitical change requires an urgent debate in Japan.

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The bloc is beginning to have some agency—as long as you don’t mention China.

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The former prime minister was sentenced to death in absentia months before a high-stakes election.

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A Trumpian promise may be hard to deliver.

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How some countries are quietly advancing progress.

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The new Japanese prime minister is unlikely to back down from recent comments.

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A cheap and practical intervention, given at birth, could save lives in conflict zones and beyond.

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Breaking out of their cycle of hope and distrust requires political imagination on both sides.

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Land mines, and who planted them, have been an ongoing factor.

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Forced recruitment has helped reverse momentum back in the military’s favor, even as it pushes many young men to flee.

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Switzerland cuts a deal—plus the latest global picture on Trump’s tariff regime.

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Beijing finds itself in a precarious geopolitical position.

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Renewables are in hot demand in a growing region.

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The two incidents underscore growing risks to regional stability.

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The new deals contain unusual concessions that could change the flow of goods in Asia.

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The countries’ ethnic ties have grown strained in recent years.

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Beijing’s green energy ambitions are fueling a global revolution.

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Post-USAID assistance may depend on a country’s strategic value to Washington.

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The Philippines has been battered by back-to-back typhoons.

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From Afghanistan to Venezuela, the misleading term has inspired decades of misguided policies against real problems.

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Tariffs and inattention have pushed regional states toward China.

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The U.S.-Philippines-Japan partnership needs institutionalization.

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As Islamabad draws attention on the global stage, it grapples with economic problems and surging terrorism back home.

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As a more technical body, the task force might be able to fill the gap left by Security Council paralysis.

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For a while, it looked as if China had learned its lesson on scaling back investments.

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Kabul’s flirt with New Delhi is a classic case of geopolitical logic.

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A controversial policy may be targeting religious minorities and Dalits.

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Taipei needs to learn how to better wield the “silicon shield.”

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In an increasingly dangerous era, the group’s old patterns of cooperation will not suffice.

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His Cambodia charm offensive is the new normal in U.S. foreign policy.

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Featuring planes, ships, rockets, and nukes.

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From soybeans to semiconductors, here’s everything you need to know about what came out of the meeting. 

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The complicated life of women struggling with climate change—and cultural change—in Kashmir’s mountains.

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U.S. and EU penalties on Russian oil companies raise the stakes for New Delhi’s trade talks with Washington.

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What if China ends up with a better deal than Southeast Asia?

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From Japan to Pakistan, the deals keep coming.

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U.S. military planners are caught in an impossible dilemma.

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Megha Majumdar’s “A Guardian and a Thief” interrogates how the have-nots get by in a climate catastrophe.

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Once-thriving crops are poorly adapting to new temperatures.

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China’s complex new rules take on the entire world at once—and give Trump an opportunity.

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The Trump administration is working to uphold the fragile Gaza cease-fire.

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The threat to Moscow’s oil earnings is huge. But will it be enough?

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Islamabad has pulled off repeated coups—but can they last?

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A diplomatic visit highlights the cautious engagement between New Delhi and Kabul.

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Ties between organized crime syndicates and Chinese intelligence run deep.

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It’s not just terrorism concerns driving tensions.

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Sanae Takaichi may not get a chance to implement her hard-line conservatism.

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Timor-Leste’s president said it was easier to get into heaven than the Southeast Asian bloc.

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Australia becomes the latest country to sign a deal with the U.S. president.

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Despite a recent boost in ties, history shows that Islamabad is a fickle friend in South Asia.

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New Delhi can only ignore the neighborhood’s political volatility for so long.

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In Asia, soft power rests on a divisive, spiky fruit.

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Here’s why you should be paying attention.

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AUKUS and critical minerals will dominate the agenda for the Australian prime minister’s White House visit.

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Southeast Asia’s freest democracy is joining ASEAN and could shift the balance of power.

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The trip marks the culmination of a remarkable turnaround in ties.

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Anti-Black videos speak to popular prejudices.

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Governments are struggling to forecast and manage bad weather.

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A soft-power breakthrough amid an escalating hard-power rivalry.

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Taiwan’s pushback on chip production underscores continued U.S. dependency.

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Nobody knows what the impact of the world’s biggest hydropower project will be.

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The Saudi Arabia-Pakistan defense pact has a signaling effect on deterrence.

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A report suggests that Islamabad continues to use its critical minerals to attract U.S. financing.

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This week’s holiday shows the Chinese public’s immense appetite for travel.

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Rare earths and strategic interests entice the U.S., India, and China.

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Australia has bucked the trend of shrinking U.S. security commitments.

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Sanae Takaichi’s ultranationalist agenda will stir up the region.

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The biggest implications of recent protests in the border region relate to security.

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Internal fissures mean that the Taliban’s rejection of the issue is far from settled.

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There are several options for dealing with the Trump administration.

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Nominal leaders are secondary to party power—but the system’s looking shaky.

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A two-pronged approach for the world’s most trade-dependent region.

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The system is broken, but there are much better ways to fix it.

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New Delhi still faces many obstacles on its path to great-power status.

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The Indian government’s global ambitions are undermined by regional uprisings from Bangladesh to Nepal.

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The Taliban quickly rejected the U.S. president’s demand that it turn over Bagram Airfield to the United States.

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Trump cites peace deals, but most are false wins.

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The mutual defense agreement could make Islamabad even more risk-tolerant.

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Gen Z demonstrators throughout the region rally against officials’ graft.

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The popular social media platform has helped choose an interim prime minister.

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Taking a lesson out of China’s playbook, Vietnam is building militarized islands.

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The island’s de facto ambassador to Washington on Trump, China, defense spending, and more.

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The megahit movie opens a new chapter for soft power.

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How an alliance between Black American women and Japanese delegates paved the way for modern human rights.

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People-to-people ties between the countries have previously flourished despite conflict.   

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He had followers in countries where majority groups feel insecure.

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Trump should strike a deal with Southeast Asia to secure imported U.S. AI chips.

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It’s time for some game theory.

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The country has an export-driven manufacturing economy and signed an early deal with the United States.

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The case of Umar Khalid, jailed on terrorism charges, underscores a frightening judicial crisis.

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A new biography of U Thant shows how his peacemaking abilities helped the United Nations grow and flourish—for a time.

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The United States can’t build the powerful technologies on its own.

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Intense strikes targeted “pig butchering” syndicates on the border.

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The situation in Kathmandu remains tense after Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli’s resignation.

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China’s military parade was just another display of a long-standing relationship.

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The collateral damage from the ICE raid on a Hyundai plant is yet another example of Trump’s counterproductive strategy.

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A new film shatters the Bollywood fantasy around romance and family.

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From a North American nail salon to a Korean institute for haunted objects.

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The recent conflict has shifted domestic politics in both countries.

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