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As a technology, large language models have been ruthless in highlighting the waste and weaknesses of the "knowledge industries."

Nepal is the latest South Asian country to witness large-scale youth-driven protests take down a government.

Trump spoke of agreements on visits and TikTok, while China's readout was more circumspect.

It is no secret that CPEC has failed to achieve its set goals on time. But is China to blame – or Pakistan itself?

In his annual State of the Nation speech, Tokayev gave new insights into how he envisions the development of Kazakhstan as a digital state.

Kazakhstan should be, and has been, commended for strengthening legal protections for women and holding perpetrators accountable, but more must be done.

The Assam government’s decisions on land transfers are likely to reignite tensions in a state with a history of violence against alleged outsiders.

An ambitious policy framework has translated into limited change in Kazakhstan. Why?     

A few sunlit ridges beside ice-rich craters could become lunar chokepoints, unless Asia writes simple, shared rules now.

India’s navy is the only one that operates persistently between Qatar, the forward HQ of the US CENTCOM, and the Malacca Strait, which leads into the South China Sea.

While ACD removes structural barriers to cooperation, at the same time it is supposed to gradually reduce Japan’s overreliance on U.S. cyberdefense systems. 

Even though China’s role in South Asia has grown in the last decade, Beijing has little by way of policy or strategy when it comes to dealing with political instability in the region. 

This is Pakistan’s most significant formal defense pact in decades, and the first such agreement that an Arab Gulf state has inked with a nuclear-armed partner.

Leaked documents from Geedge Networks and GoLaxy show how repression in China is both a political imperative and a profitable business.

That Indonesia’s costly high-speed rail is operating at a loss right out of the gate has raised some eyebrows.

Kim Jong Un showed his tit-for-tat move against the latest South Korea-U.S. military drills.

China’s limited success in managing the political risks of the BRI has resulted in reputational costs and played a role in China’s curtailed flow of BRI lending in recent years.

Far from consolidating, recognition by the international community could expose the group’s rifts over resources, external demands, and identity.

It is nearly impossible for even the closest U.S. allies to comply with its byzantine immigration system. That needs to change.

Treasury’s latest sanctions show momentum, but contradictions in U.S. policy risk blunting their impact.