A football tournament is China’s latest propaganda campaign to whitewash its abuses of Uyghur people – and deconstruct Uyghur ...

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Following their summit meeting on May 28, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., who was visiting Japan as a state guest, ...

The Bangkok-based advocacy group Project88 documented 56 political arrests last year, the most in any year since 2018.

Economic statecraft is not as simple or easy as Chinese decisionmakers think or as U.S. policymakers and external observers ...

A decade on from one of the country’s highest-profile political killings, democracy remains a dream rather than reality.

Scientists warn of a regional disaster If pollution from rare earth and gold mining in Myanmar continues to spread toxins ...

By adding legal backup to state control of Chinese private companies, Decree No. 837 affects any country receiving their ...

The Section 301 Investigation launched by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) in March 2026 is framed as a ...

The U.S. wants explicit alignment, but China’s more flexible approach to strategic competition resonates with Pacific Island ...

Chadchart Sittipunt, an independent, has replicated the landslide victory that delivered him to the governor’s office in 2022 ...