Asia

July 27, 2026

Asia’s Race to Escape Energy Dependence

The recent conflict involving Iran has done far more than disrupt tanker traffic and lift fuel prices for a few weeks. It has triggered a deeper strategic reassessment across developing Asia, where

Asia·Opinion

July 22, 2026

The Bailout That’s Bankrolling Repression

For decades, Pakistan has asked the world to view its troubles through a single lens: an existential rivalry with India that supposedly explains everything from its bloated defense budget to its periodic

Asia·Australia·Opinion

July 20, 2026

The New Architects of the Indo-Pacific

For most of the postwar era, the map of Asian power ran through a familiar set of capitals: Washington, Beijing, Tokyo. India sat, geographically and strategically, off to the side—a subcontinental power

The Quiet Architecture of Power: What India’s Indo-Pacific Swing Really Means

When a head of government spends six days moving through three countries, it is tempting to file the trip under ceremony: handshakes, banquets, a joint statement or two, and a return home

July 14, 2026

Asia·Australia·Opinion

How Pakistan Turned Its Courts Against Its Own People

In Pakistan, the courts were supposed to be the last line of defense against power. A new report shows how thoroughly that line has been erased. There is a particular kind of

July 10, 2026

Asia·Opinion

Australia and India Just Struck the Deal Noone Saw Coming

Melbourne just hosted a quiet revolution in the Indo-Pacific, and it deserved louder applause than it got. When Prime Ministers Anthony Albanese and Narendra Modi finalized an administrative arrangement to begin uranium

July 9, 2026

Asia·Australia·Opinion

Japan, India, and the Case for Trust as Strategy

There is a particular kind of diplomatic language that gets deployed when two countries want to signal that a relationship has moved from courtesy to consequence. This week in New Delhi, Japanese

July 5, 2026

Asia·Opinion

Two Hands of Pakistan: Force and Silence

Pakistan is in the business of rebranding. Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar has declared, with evident pride, that Pakistan is now recognized as a “peacemaker” — a country whose geography, military ties,

June 29, 2026

Asia·Opinion

China Treats Diplomacy Like a Ledger. It Won’t Add Up

There is a seductive logic to treating foreign policy like a business. Cut the deal, extract the value, move on to the next counterparty. No sentimentality, no lectures, no expensive entanglements—just leverage,

June 23, 2026

Asia·Opinion

When a Refugee Becomes an ‘Illegal Foreigner’

In the long shadow of Afghanistan’s wars, Pakistan has long stood as both refuge and pressure valve. Generations of Afghans have crossed the border seeking safety from conflict, persecution, and instability, and

June 21, 2026

Asia·Opinion

How Pakistan Broke Trust in Kashmir

Pakistan-administered Kashmir is not just seeing another bout of unrest; it is exposing a political order built on managed representation, coercive policing and a long habit of treating local grievances as a

June 8, 2026

Asia·Opinion

Oman–India Corridor: Can Muscat Offer New Pathways Beyond the Strait of Hormuz?

The deepening strategic and economic partnership between India and Oman is creating an emerging set of trade and energy corridors that largely circumvent the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most

June 3, 2026

Asia·Middle East·Opinion

Probable Paths for Trump’s Managed Trade Framework with China

President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have agreed in principle to create new bilateral mechanisms — including a Board of Trade and a Board of Investment — under a “reciprocal

May 31, 2026

Americas·Asia·Opinion

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Asia

Asia’s Race to Escape Energy Dependence

The Bailout That’s Bankrolling Repression

The New Architects of the Indo-Pacific

The Quiet Architecture of Power: What India’s Indo-Pacific Swing Really Means

How Pakistan Turned Its Courts Against Its Own People

Australia and India Just Struck the Deal Noone Saw Coming

Japan, India, and the Case for Trust as Strategy

Two Hands of Pakistan: Force and Silence

China Treats Diplomacy Like a Ledger. It Won’t Add Up

When a Refugee Becomes an ‘Illegal Foreigner’

How Pakistan Broke Trust in Kashmir

Oman–India Corridor: Can Muscat Offer New Pathways Beyond the Strait of Hormuz?

Probable Paths for Trump’s Managed Trade Framework with China

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