Features

Japan gets an unconventional new central bank governor at a pivotal time.

With no space for a successor to Xi Jinping, China’s leadership is getting older as generational change slows down.

In addition to beaming out its perspectives via Chinese state media, Beijing is aspiring to control both the structure and norms of global information networks.

Sri Lanka’s default highlights the dangers of relying on international sovereign bonds – with high interest rates – to fund development.

Amid great power competition, life in the China-Russia borderlands reveals the paradoxes underpinning the Beijing-Moscow friendship.

An eye-witness report by two investigative journalists on the ground in Prato, Italy.

Gen. Li Shangfu, with deep ties to China’s military space enterprises, is widely expected to become China’s next minister of defense. What do we know about him?

Besides being the right thing to do, apologies bring diplomatic and political gains in a region haunted by colonial and imperial atrocities.

China is drawing lessons from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Chinese military sources can tell us exactly what the PLA is learning.

Dahal’s return to power could reset Nepal’s foreign policy – but first he'll have to survive an unstable coalition and disgruntled electorate.

An unusual diaspora -- Indian medical students evacuated from Ukraine last year -- has found community in a small Catholic church in Samarkand.

China is right to say that the World Bank and IMF need to engage in debt relief. Many African debtor countries think the same thing.