China and the COVID-19 Debt Crunch
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Is relief from China the answer to the debt woes of COVID-19?
How an outlawed martial arts group facilitated a critical shift in Timor-Leste’s political scene.
In 2019, Kazakhstan was catapulted into political transition. 2020 has yielded its own shocking changes.
The temporary blue skies brought by the COVID-19 slowdown have inspired soul-searching over Pakistan’s current development path.
COVID-19 has given new urgency to a decades-old debate on Taiwan’s inclusion in the world’s top health body.
The COVID-19 pandemic is hardening negative perceptions of China in Europe.
In taking on geopolitical overtones, the BRI has become alienated from its original economic purpose.
Largely via Twitter, the U.S. and Chinese ambassadors to Poland have engaged in a fierce debate over COVID-19.
The pandemic will inevitably affect Tsai’s signature foreign policy — but not necessarily for the worse.
A long overdue rapprochement has been further delayed thanks to COVID-19.
Japan has ended its state of emergency. But instead of simply declaring victory, politicians should take heed of the lessons learned.
While Japan’s central government moved slowly to respond to COVID-19, prefectural governors sprung into action. That could have lasting consequences.
The COVID-19-induced border closure continues to wreak havoc on North Korea’s trade with China.
The mental health issue is already poorly understood; now its role in the public imagination is shifting again.
How has one of the Belt and Road Initiative’s signature projects fared?
Naikoo’s elimination is a major victory at a critical time for India’s counterinsurgency forces.
The Indo-Chinese borderlands are rumbling again.
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the political dynamics in India. How much will it matter?
China has, of late, taken an active and quiet interest in Nepal’s domestic politics.
Beijing has seen opportunity in the Philippines under Duterte. It continues to grow its influence there during the COVID-19 pandemic, although Filipinos aren’t happy about it.
Microfinance has become a debt trap for many in the region. Can the pandemic spark change?
With handed-down memories, Generation Z tries to answer a question from the past.
Despite public health cooperation, analysts say the Vietnamese Communist Party has little trust in the word of its Chinese counterparts.
Muhyiddin’s consolidation of power comes simultaneously with the smallest majority in Malaysia’s democratic history.
2020 was supposed to be the year Central Asian gas exports to China hit capacity limits.
How the Uzbek government handles the investigation of the dam collapse matters.
First President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s eldest daughter was dismissed from her post as chair of the Senate. Is it a sign of a power struggle?
After a decade in jail and repeated international calls for his release, ethnic Uzbek human rights activist Azimjan Askarov remains behind bars in Kyrgyzstan.
Social and economic upheaval at such a scale as experienced amid the COVID-19 pandemic unavoidably entails political effects.
Middle powers like Australia need to take a more active role in global decision making.
The contention over a COVID-19 inquiry follows months of deteriorating relations between Canberra and Beijing.
Mining for battery metals seen as a threat to Pacific Island nations.
How an old alliance can guide Australia’s post-coronavirus future.
Is the Trump administration determined to twist the facts on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic within China?
How does high-level travel to the region under Trump compare to previous administrations?
Why is it that even a government as powerful as the United States is unable to impose its will on a single technology firm?
Ground-based hypersonic weapons in Asia might encourage the attacks they are meant to prevent, while sub-launched ones might successfully deter them.
Amid the impending economic disaster from the pandemic, increased crime in Southeast Asian seas is inevitable.
The U.S. Navy has chosen its next frigate; what will China’s look like?
The window of opportunity for such talks is shrinking, and delay could see space emerge as an active domain for conflict.
The Indian government has faced a dilemma: Should it let the people name their caste or force them to choose from a set list?
Tendol Gyalzur cared for 300 children over a period of 25 years.
Post-COVID sports may resemble the October 2019 FIFA World Cup Qualifier between the men’s national teams from North and South Korea.