The Propaganda Promise of AI
Mandatory year-end accounting reports by Chinese state media treat "external propaganda" as a distinct, measurable pillar of their work.
What London’s climate week revealed about UK-China green finance work
Starmer might be about to lose power, but LCAW kept UK-China green finance cooperation on a positive trajectory
The manipulation of voter rolls is undermining the legitimacy of India’s elections
By altering the conditions and mechanics of the vote and thereby granting the ruling party an electoral advantage built within the electoral machinery itself, the ECI, whose purpose is to guarantee …
Demand for Demand
Consumption Norms, Hysteresis, and the Struggle to Revive Whale Consumption in Japan’s Largest Whaling Port
PSN for Dummies: If I Invested in Indonesia’s Strategic Projects
Sixty-seven residents of Wadas Village were arrested after opposing an andesite quarry for the Bener Dam in Central Java.
Amid Hormuz instability, attention shifts to Pakistan’s Gwadar port
Pakistan's once sleepy port now has options. It could reinvent itself into an oil hub, a trade gateway or a clean-energy powerhouse
Recalibrating ASEAN’s economic security in a fractured world
For decades, Southeast Asia has built its economic security on a simple proposition — that openness works.
Is the Number of Taiwanese Missing in China Increasing?
According to the Mainland Affairs Council, earlier this month, ten Taiwanese were reported missing in China the same week by family members
The Hindu nationalist remaking of transgender identity in India
Behind the language of protection, India’s new transgender law advances a Hindu nationalist project that recasts gender variance through state classification while deepening exclusions along caste and religious lines
History First as Tragedy, Then as Blob
In the wake of a letter by a Taiwanese academic that claimed Taiwan and China were part of the same polity…based on a land bridge that connected the two during the Ice Age, Vijay Prashad’s …
Tibetan Activist Who Self-Immolated Outside UN Headquarters Memorialized at Liberty Plaza
A mourning ceremony was held in Liberty Plaza on Wednesday night, to memorialize the self-immolation of Tibetan activist Lobga Rangzen.
The toast at the end of time: Alexis Wright’s Praiseworthy as anti-epic
Praiseworthy is maybe the first novel in the world which takes all of these pressures completely seriously.
Another sign of an empire in decline
Today’s surge in left-wing politics in the US is reminiscent of the UK’s transformation a century ago
Pedagogy of Absence: Sexuality Education and Social Inequality in China
One night during my fieldwork in 2019, I was hanging out with friends in Beijing.
Translation: Euphemism and Censorship Surround Guangxi Flooding, Dam Breach News
Back-to-back typhoons have brought torrential rain, flooding, and other extreme weather events to parts of southern and central China, and prompted mass evacuations of people living in the paths of …
China gains by standing aside in the Iran War
Even as the US–Israel war on Iran has escalated across the Persian Gulf and disrupted trade through the Strait of Hormuz, China has shown little interest in taking on a larger role in the Middle …
After 100 days of ‘civilian’ rule, Myanmar remains a bastion of oppression
Basic rights remain non-existent in the country, despite the junta’s efforts to rebrand itself as an elected, civilian government
Why gerontocracy should alarm us
It's bad not only because it uncovers the rule of old, mostly men, but also because it shows how the massive accumulation of power and wealth over the years by the old can curtail the prospects of the young
India’s investment reforms keep China at arm’s length
In March 2026, the Indian government eased investment restrictions imposed in 2020 that required government approval for any investment in which a beneficial owner was a citizen of, or located in, a …