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India’s Central Asia missile sales spark a new Great Game
A flurry of landmark arms deals is reshaping Central Asia’s strategic landscape, as regional states…
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Israel votes again but the arithmetic hasn’t changed
TEL AVIV – Every Israeli election of the past decade has been sold as the last chance…
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India’s rate hike a loud warning shot for Modinomics
It’s not often that events in Mumbai reverberate through global markets. But the Reserve Bank of…
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Indonesia should count the real cost of its mineral incentives
Every year, the Indonesian government forgoes taxes it could collect. Through tax holidays, rate cuts…
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Bit by bit, the Taliban is losing control of Afghanistan
Five years after seizing Kabul, the Taliban’s strongest argument for international acceptance rests on control.
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Trump sons-backed firms bank $6 billion plus in Pentagon deals
An analysis published on Wednesday by ABC News estimated that companies backed financially by Donald…
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Choices that will define Asia’s AI future are coming into focus
We are fortunate to live at an incredible moment in history. As more and…
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Plainly, Trump doesn’t really care about the midterms
With a month still to go before America’s mid-term congressional and gubernatorial elections, the prospect of a…
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How Yemen’s renewed civil war could set the whole region ablaze
The Middle East has seen many explosions of violence in recent years. But while…
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Indonesia’s bourse rebuild is really a monetary policy story
For decades, the Indonesia Stock Exchange has run like a members’ club, where the brokers who…
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US-Australia hypersonic push no silver bullet against China
The inaugural flight-test release of a US air-launched hypersonic weapon over an Australian weapons range demonstrates both…
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Trump finds it’s funny to joke about Iran bombing California
In a stemwinder of a speech in Nebraska, our mentally ill president joked around that…
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When Asia’s central banks turn bond vigilante on Trump
TOKYO – For decades, the US enjoyed a remarkable luxury: its two biggest creditors, Japan and…
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How China deploys wartime history against Japan
Beyond all the pageantry, the Chinese leader Xi Jinping had a strategic goal for his Washington visit –…
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How geopolitical tensions tainted the 2026 Asian Games
The 2026 Asian Games in Japan drew to a close on October 4 following two weeks of…
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Did he really invite Iran to take out California cities?
“Keep our city out of your reckless war talk,” said San Diego’s mayor, Todd Gloria,…
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Asia’s growth now belongs to Silicon Valley
Southeast Asia’s growth next year will be decided at meetings its finance ministers won’t attend. A few executives…
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CPEC 2.0 will be won or lost on keeping China’s investors safe
CPEC 2.0 aims to move past the infrastructure-heavy first phase toward industry, agriculture,…
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The illusion of America’s withdrawal from Iraq
The American withdrawal from Iraq is not an end but a strategic pivot, a calculated transition from direct…
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US enshittification vs Chinese involution
It’s getting better all the time (Better, better, better) It’s getting better all the time I admit it’s…