China Asia Economy

Twin deficits, balance of payments issues plague Sri...

After the economic collapse of Sri Lanka, efforts are under way to pull the c...

How Vietnam can win even more from China decoupling

In late August 2022, news broke that Apple was in talks to manufacture its fa...

China wants patriotic scientists to fight US chip ban

The Chinese government has decided to recruit and groom a team of strategic s...

ASEAN bracing for US-China rivalry to explode

Chinese paramount leader Xi Jinping’s fiery address before the Chinese Commun...

China is falling but Japan is already down-and-out

TOKYO - With Xi Jinping’s coronation in full swing in Beijing, few eyes are o...

Turkmenistan is open for business

Western observers are mistaken in their tendency to overlook Turkmenistan, a ...

Revisionist Marcos regime a danger to Philippine dem...

The Marcos family is back in power after 36 years. Its return is a dangerous ...

China’s property sinkhole growing deep and wide

Chinese real estate developers are desperate to recover from the prolonged lo...

Is Putin’s exit strategy coming into view?

One of Vladimir Putin’s oft-quoted maxims is that “sometimes it is necessary ...

US software gives China its hypersonic edge

Classified US software is helping China get an edge over the former in the hy...

Time to take Kim Jong Un’s nuclear threats seriously

As the West frets over the possibility of Vladimir Putin turning to nuclear w...

Xi must walk his talk of reform and transformation  

General Secretary Xi Jinping had a good first term in office capped by a sple...

‘Killer robots’ will be nothing like in the movies

You might suppose Hollywood is good at predicting the future. Indeed, Robert ...

India fires submarine missile warning at China, Paki...

India successfully tested a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) from ...

After pounding the UK, Truss mulls China hostilities

In a highly unusual press conference on October 15, embattled British Prime M...

Nippon Steel pouring big money into India and Thailand

Nippon Steel and ArcelorMittal, two of the world’s largest steel companies, h...