July 2020

Seoul is already looking ahead to the post-COVID world.

The Indonesian military’s COVID-19 role is not a comeback in the making.

From last year’s protests to the national security law, Hong Kong’s turmoil is largely a question of who gets to make the law – and who gets labeled as breaking it.

The U.S. and Iran are talking. That’s good news for Afghanistan.

India’s female labor force participation is the lowest in South Asia.

After recent reports laid out evidence that Uyghurs were being sent to work in factories around China after detention, Australian governments are reviewing some contracts.

The merging of the arts, commerce, and science streams in Indian schools is a good decision.

The next step may very well be intra-Afghan talks, but the Taliban have spent the first half of the year bludgeoning the Afghan security forces.

Pyongyang is going to remain a nuclear weapons state for the foreseeable future. U.S. policymakers must learn to live with this reality. 

After many twists, turns, and delays, the first batch of French Dassault Rafale fighters finally arrived in India.

Chinese patterns of provocation have endured for over five decades. Can India break the cycle?