Japan’s Defense White Paper Sounds Alarm Over China, North Korea, Russia
In its latest defense white paper, Tokyo has for the first time sounded a direct warning against the growing risk of a grave situation akin to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine occurring in East Asia....
View ArticleThe Manipur Conflict: Internal Discontent, Policy Gaps, and Regional...
On June 9, 2024, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his newly elected Union Council of Ministers took their oaths in New Delhi, violence erupted in Manipur’s Jiribam district. Homes were burned, and...
View ArticleFrom Russian Ladas to Chinese BYDs: Central Asia’s Changing Priorities
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Kazakhstan and participation in the 24th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on July 2-4, 2024, marked...
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The Sea Isn’t the Only Thing Rising: Life, Death and Disease in the Pacific
It may come as a surprise but traveling 7,500 miles to the least visited nation on the planet can provide valuable perspective on one’s own country. As part of the first Congressional delegation to...
View ArticleThe Folly of Interlinking NATO and US Asian Alliances
Recent years have witnessed growing security engagement and cooperation between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and key U.S. allies in East Asia — Japan and South Korea, most prominently....
View ArticleWho Is Han Dong-hoon?
Han Dong-hoon is a man of many epithets. Since early in his career as a prosecutor, he had had a knack of sniffing out and hounding corporate hotshots. Not for nothing did people call him a...
View ArticleWhy Is the Bangladesh Government Unable to Quell Ongoing Students Protests?
Tens of thousands of university students are out on the streets of Bangladesh to protest a quota system that reserves a substantial proportion of civil service jobs for children of liberation war...
View ArticleAn Expanding BRICS Seeks to Reform Not Replace the Global Order
BRICS began as an excellent investment opportunity since it comprised some of the world’s fastest growing economies — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. They belonged to four continents and...
View ArticleWhy Did China, Mongolia, and Russia Skip Their Trilateral Leaders’ Summit at...
On July 3, Wang Yi, China’s top diplomat as director of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee Foreign Affairs Commission Office and concurrently the foreign minister, presided over trilateral...
View ArticleHas Bangladesh Lost Its Footing in the China-India Balancing Act?
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina last week concluded an official visit to China, a few weeks after visiting the closest neighbor, India, from June 21-22. Hasina and her ruling Awami League have...
View ArticleTaking Enhanced Russia-North Korea Ties in Stride
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to North Korea back in June created substantial unease in both the United States and among Washington’s allies. The notable presence of many Asian leaders,...
View ArticlePakistani Government Seeking Ban on Imran Khan’s Party
The Pakistani government has announced that it plans to ban the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, led by jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan, and to file sedition charges against him and former...
View ArticleCan Russia Help Cash-Strapped Pakistan?
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif attended the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s recent summit in Astana on July 3-4, 2024. On the sidelines of the summit which gathered the SCO’s leaders,...
View ArticleAssessing the NATO Summit and Indo-Pacific Partners
The Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia policy. This conversation...
View ArticleNippon Ishin no Kai’s Baba Nobuyuki Faces Hard Political Realities in Tokyo...
Japanese politics are in an unsettled state. Trust in the postwar ruling party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), plummeted following revelations last year of widespread corruption among its...
View ArticleChina Has an Opportunity to Grow Its Military Influence in Niger
The complete withdrawals of U.S. and French military forces from Niger in July 2024 and December 2023, respectively, created a significant power vacuum in the Sahel region of Africa. This vacuum...
View ArticleFrom Activism to Provincial Assembly: A Conversation With Gwadar’s Maulana...
Through his two-year-long movement, the “Haq Do Tehreek” (Gwadar Rights Movement), Maulana Hidayat ur Rehman has emerged from a local political leader to a household name. Elected as a member of the...
View ArticleThe Ulu Tiram Attack: Inspiration for Terror in Malaysia
A terror attack earlier this year on a Malaysian police station appeared to have been inspired by the Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), an Indonesian pro-Islamic State umbrella terror organization,...
View ArticleIt Is Time for the World to Listen and Act to Help Rohingya
Across Southeast Asia, thousands of Rohingya refugees are fleeing the genocide in Myanmar only to find themselves caught up in another wave of persecution. In countries like Thailand, Malaysia, and...
View ArticleHas Bangladesh Lost Its Footing in the China-India Balancing Act?
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina last week concluded an official visit to China, a few weeks after visiting the closest neighbor, India, from June 21-22. Hasina and her ruling Awami League have...
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