China Asia Economy

Putin’s war narrative is crumbling, piece by bogus p...

People understand the world – that is, where we came from, how we got here an...

Power play: China’s submarines going lithium

China plans to upgrade its conventional submarines with lithium-ion batteries...

Sayonara Okinawa: US is sending its F-15s home

Joe Kelly (Red Buttons) :[Major Gruver is entering Joe Kelly’s Japanese home ...

US will struggle to stop China’s quantum leap

One of China’s premier research institutes is expanding its efforts to achiev...

Russia’s nuclear threat requires a rational response

During the Cold War, the concept of nuclear deterrence developed around the i...

US chip ban de facto declaration of war on China?

The United States has gambled big in its latest across-the-board sanctions on...

India’s diplomacy all about ‘exploiting opportunities’

In October 2022, India abstained from voting in a UN Security Council draft r...

Man vs machine: US preparing an AI Bill of Rights

Despite the important and ever-increasing role of artificial intelligence in ...

New evidence firmly revives Wuhan lab origin theory

This article was first published by Vanity Fair jointly with ProPublica, a Pu...

Imagining a post-Putin Russia

Speculation regarding how secure Vladimir Putin’s position is surfaces every ...

Nokia makes decoupling point with India, China deals

Nokia has won important contracts in both India and China recently, demonstra...

The ties that bind North Korea and Russia

Moscow’s “special military operation” in Ukraine has ushered in a new geopoli...

Health check for Japan’s ailing economy, sickly yen

TOKYO - Shigeyuki Goto isn’t getting much of a honeymoon as Japan’s newly min...

Does Elon Musk have a coherent vision for Twitter?

Elon Musk’s proposed US$44 billion deal to acquire Twitter and take it privat...

Judicial repression new norm for Hong Kong

On September 26, 2022, a university professor, two former lawmakers, a Cantop...

Four scenarios for a world in disorder

Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s recent speech to the Communist Party Congress cou...