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Recently, a district judge awarded 23 death sentences in ten cases over a span of four months.

A recently-passed law increases the risk that people fleeing repression will be deported and forcibly recruited into the military’s units of "one-way troops."

The quick pace of reconciliation between Tokyo and Hanoi since the end of the Cold War has reflected the compatibility of their respective grand strategies.

The unresolved border dispute between Cambodia and Thailand has given rise to a rash of online disputes over cultural "ownership."

The organizations expressed “grave concern” about the repatriation of refugees to Myanmar, citing the risks of violent persecution and forced conscription.

The Trump-Xi meeting may temporarily ease anxiety over rare earth supplies, but it is unlikely to lower the political and regulatory threshold for access.

The evidence of atrocities is there. What are governments prepared to do with that knowledge?

Xi’s coming to the U.S. East Coast while the United Nations’ biggest event is going on. That makes his absence all the more striking.

What look like indications of U.S. abandonment of Taiwan are relatively superficial, while substantive investment in capabilities that could deter China continues apace.

Japarov also thanked Donald Trump for ending funding of NGOs.

Trump wants more sales. Xi wants fewer constraints. What does Australia need from the Trump-Xi summit?

Insights from Stephen J. Blank.

This year’s natural disaster drill sought to stress-test Taiwan against cascading, multisystem failures – with obvious implications for an invasion scenario as well as an earthquake.

Nepal’s devastating Himalayan floods have exposed the human and economic cost of a warming region, reviving demand for climate justice.

As the U.S.-China rivalry hollows out the WTO, Japan and ASEAN have a chance to build something new.

Will Washington translate its interest in Gwadar and the region around it into a policy to establish its presence there?

The ego-driven fragility of a world run by Xi Jinping and Donald Trump.

Expect little movement on trade, less on Taiwan, and who knows on tech.

Rising youth unemployment, the advent of AI translation, and growing anger against everything foreign are fueling public anger against English education in China. 

Washington will not slow its own AI labs. Slowing China’s instead would look like safety policy, but it could cost the United States the one AI deal within reach this week.