The Tajik Civil War: 20 Years Later
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The United States and Japan want fundamentally different things from their trade relationship.
Trust issues, rather than policy differences, drive anxiety in the US-Korea relationship.
A new insurgency greatly exacerbates Rohingya refugee suffering.
The timing of the ransomware attack provides a strong argument for China’s controversial Cybersecurity Law.
Cross-strait relations under Tsai Ing-wen have reached their lowest point in nine years, and it can get worse.
A biography of Li Zhanshu, the right-hand man to Xi Jinping.
China put on an impressive diplomatic show, but had little new to say about its flagship project.
China’s move toward automation is still largely reliant on imports from abroad.
The withdrawal of Japanese peacekeeping troops highlighted twin controversies over the country’s military role abroad and civil-military relations at home.
In deciding whether to talk with Pyongyang, South Korea’s new president has to wrestle with a thorny legal and political legacy.
Japan’s prime minister outlines his plan for revising Japan’s constitution by 2020.
The system's utility against a missile like the Hwasong-12 is severely limited.
Four lessons to be learned from the results that brought Moon Jae-in to the presidency.
Who was Aurangzeb and why does his legacy continue to spark so much passion in South Asia?
The Hezb-i-Islami leader’s return threatens to further upset Afghanistan’s already precarious ethnic balance.
What it’s really like to climb the world’s tallest mountain.
Nearly five years after a brutal gang rape shook India, how has the Indian justice system dealt with rape?
Which country stands to gain the most from the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor?
A fresh attempt at blended finance offers hope for filling a large demand for sustainable infrastructure.
It may have been a joke, but the president’s critics aren’t laughing.
Formerly a global pariah, the Burmese military now enjoys a growing embrace by the West and public support at home.
Indonesia’s infrastructure needs are not distributed equally across the archipelago.
North Korea asked ASEAN to take its side against the United States.
Is Tashkent getting serious about human rights?
Astana will face a number of practical and political issues in promoting renewable energy sources.
Such fairs do provide insight into the psychology of dictatorship.
After a deadly spring, can Kyrgyzstan move to control the risk posed by future landslides?
More stuff for Tajikistan’s border services, courtesy of Washington.
The island state’s clever cultivation of a friendship with China is paying off.
More than 60 years after hosting British nuclear tests, Canberra is extending benefits to veterans who were exposed.
Geostrategic concerns about the Belt and Road are overblown. So why is Australia so reluctant to participate?
In recognizing Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Nauru drew Russian funds. Can U.S. pressure flip Nauru’s choice?
Can Donald J. Trump and Moon Jae-in find a way to keep the U.S.-South Korea alliance in good health?
An important recent engagement between the two sides was about more than just North Korea.
The U.S. and China agree to modest steps on trade cooperation, but there’s little to address systemic imbalances.
How quickly India can mobilize and coordinate an armored thrust into Pakistani territory?
A testing site for weapons systems, missiles, and rockets in the middle of the Pacific.
The full flowering of special operations forces wouldn’t come until after Vietnam.
Lack of a useful U.S. definition helps China deflect criticism.
The game may be a niche sport in Thailand and Nepal but it does have a strange magic – and its critics.
As the next two hosts of the Winter Olympics, both countries are pushing to improve their ice hockey performances.
From China to Japan and Singapore, Asian countries are investing in the genomics revolution.