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\nThisanka Siripala
\nPaolo Sorbello
\nTroy Stangarone
\nSteven Stashwick
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\nColleen Wood
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Some anniversaries get celebrated, some are marked by days of mourning, and still others are quietly buried.

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Seventy-five years after the U.S. began testing nuclear weapons in the Pacific, the Marshall Islands stand at a new crossroads.

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As the CCP celebrates its centennial, how close is the party of Xi Jinping to its founding vision?

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Russia will never match U.S. or Chinese influence in the region, but it has proven adept at getting a decent return for its minimal investments.

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The Mongolian People’s Party now controls the executive and the legislature, but now must contend with COVID-19 and demands to level the political playing field.

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“There may be claims of reformers having been [there] in pre-Narasimha Rao governments, but if there were any, they hid themselves very well.”

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One year after the national security law was enacted, what has the cost been for China and Hong Kong?

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The NBA was one of the biggest business success stories in China. Now it’s caught between a rock and a hard place.

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Behind the CCP’s horrific crackdown in Xinjiang is a desperate drive to avoid the mistakes that led to the USSR’s collapse.

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John Cena’s apology is a good opportunity to look back at the historical reality of Taiwan’s status and identity over the last 200 years.

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Loud encouragement for women to have more children, coupled with a rise in rhetoric equating femininity with weakness, could be a damaging combination for women’s rights in China.

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In the last nine months of his presidency, how will Moon Jae-in handle foreign policy?

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The Japanese public is hardly overjoyed about the prospect of holding the Games amid a continuing pandemic.

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South Korea has a chance to close the gap between rhetoric and action on climate change.

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The Seoul Central District Court ruling might help lower temperatures, but a political solution is needed to improve South Korea’s relations with Japan.

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The rhetoric is there. But what does it mean?

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Pandemic preoccupation prevents New Delhi from pursuing its strategic interests for the time being.

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Pakistan may use the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan to gain leverage with the IMF.

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As Oli steers his party to the right to woo India’s ruling BJP, China is courting Nepal’s left wing.

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Kabul breakdancers use hip-hop to cope with mental health struggles amid increasing violence and uncertainty surrounding the U.S. troop withdrawal.

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Even in countries where abortion is legal, access to safe abortions remains challenging

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The jailing of a 23-year-old rapper in Cambodia is a sign of an unrelenting crackdown – and deeper patterns in the country’s politics.

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The boxing icon could make a run for the nation’s highest office, but he’s having trouble dodging political attacks that could knock him out of the race.

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The Singaporean company operating the country’s only offshore oil block filed for liquidation recently.

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“Healthcare is in an immediate crisis. If the coup continues we are heading towards becoming a failed state.”

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Whether or not it is enforceable, the move hints at Hanoi’s desire for tight control over what its citizens say and do online.

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Embattled AUCA President Andrew Kuchins intends to go back to the United States, but the Kyrgyz government may not let him leave.

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No one expects China to replace the United States in military terms, but Central Asia may hope Beijing plays a more substantial role in Afghanistan.

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China’s state-owned corporations are acquiring strategic resources around the globe, including locking in nuclear fuel supplies from Kazakhstan.

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Centerra’s Kyrgyz subsidiaries filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States as the company seeks to talk things out with Bishkek.

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YouTube’s temporary suspension of a Kazakh human rights group’s channel highlights the risks of civil society’s heavy reliance on the tech giants.

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How Brexit affects labor-market access to Australia for Pacific Islanders.

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New research links the Maori people to possibly discovering Antarctica long before Europeans and Americans.

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The past year has seen a chill descend over relations between Canberra and Beijing.

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Pacific Island nations are contemplating allowing deep-sea mining to bolster their economies, despite unknown environmental impacts.

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The real question is whether investments and partnerships based on fear can be strong enough to withstand the long game being played out by Beijing.

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Trump’s encouragement of white supremacy and his strident anti-China rhetoric proved a toxic combination for Asian Americans.

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U.S. legislators have a long and storied history of meeting North Korean leaders. Time to dust off that legacy.

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Will the “new era of great power competition” also see a new alliance against the United States and its allies, like the Warsaw Pact?

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China’s rapid 5G build-up has come to Tibet. That will have security implications for India.

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A number of factors are pushing Ottawa to increase both its rhetoric about and naval presence in the disputed waters.

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Nearly two years on from his surprise appointment, how do the efforts of the Indonesian Defense Minister hold up?

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The massively popular show is a Pakistani soul appearing in a partially Western body.

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The LGBTQ+ community in Vietnam faces many challenges, but remains steadfast in pushing for progress.

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Forced observances of Han holidays are part of the CCP campaign to remake ethno-national loyalties among Turkic groups in Xinjiang.

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